More than 2 years ago I wrote about an incident which had happened a couple of years before then, which means the incident occurred around 4 years ago. To whet your appetite here’s the picture and the original story is here.

The relevance is that with the recent duty changes those of us on The Salisbury Rota now have a Guildford trip once every 4 weeks on a Saturday. I drove the trip today and the guy who’d tested my patience all that time ago is alive and well and still travelling the route :-( I don’t think he had any idea we’d met 4 years ago but as he boarded and showed his concessionary pass he said “These passes are being withdrawn”. “Are they?” was my response. “Yes, the other drivers are telling me that we wont be able to keep these”. Wishful thinking by the other drivers would be my guess. Anyway, for the rest of the trip he kept announcing very loudly that concessionary passes were being withdrawn.