{"id":1027,"date":"2010-10-17T10:59:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T09:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2010-11-04T07:14:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T07:14:34","slug":"giving-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"Giving change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people who appeared to be together boarded yesterday, the guy then stated his destination, I said &#8216;\u00c2\u00a31.60, please&#8217; at which he dumped a one pound coin and an enormous pile of loose change into the cash tray adding &#8216;Sorry about the change&#8217;!  Sorry, my arse, he was glad to shed that lot, he knew what the fare would be and had it counted out.  But he&#8217;d made a mistake &#8211; he&#8217;d asked for his ticket before his companion :-)  She asked for the same destination and offered a \u00c2\u00a32 coin so was due 40p change.  I&#8217;d left the pile of coins in the cash tray to put away later so was I quickly able to snap up the \u00c2\u00a31 coin and the only silver coin (20p) leaving nothing but pennies and tuppences left by her companion and say &#8216;There you are &#8230;.. sorry about the change&#8217;.  She then joined her companion who&#8217;d already sat down and it looked like they they were having a team meeting about how it had gone wrong and were planning not to do it that way round next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people who appeared to be together boarded yesterday, the guy then stated his destination, I said &#8216;\u00c2\u00a31.60, please&#8217; at which he dumped a one pound coin and an enormous pile of loose change into the cash tray adding &#8216;Sorry about the change&#8217;! Sorry, my arse, he was glad to shed that lot, he knew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}