{"id":213,"date":"2008-03-15T14:57:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T13:57:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-03-15T14:57:45","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T13:57:45","slug":"duty-from-hell-day-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Duty from hell day again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, 193!<\/p>\n<p>A car park user got onto the P+R bus and I asked how many passengers they had.  &#8220;Why do you want to know that&#8221;?  &#8220;Because they need tickets printed for each of them so they don&#8217;t get charged on the return trip&#8221; I explained.  &#8220;Is this something new&#8221;?  &#8220;It&#8217;s been like that as long as I&#8217;ve driven the P+R service, which is two years&#8221;.  &#8220;Oh, it was longer ago than that when I last used it&#8221;.  God knows why she asked if this ticketing was something new if she&#8217;d not been on a P+R bus for years!<\/p>\n<p>Several times the bell rang about 50 yards past a stop.  Before the stop it didn&#8217;t ring, before the stop no one raised themselves off the seat, before the stop they didn&#8217;t collectively think hard enough for telepathy to work.  So how was I to know?<\/p>\n<p>Twice I was offered \u00a320 notes for the 40p fare between stops in town.  Few people use a P+R bus like this, to the extent that my takings in 4 hours were \u00a31.60 so how the devil can I change \u00a320 notes?  If I&#8217;d been able to give change totaling \u00a339.20 I&#8217;d have taken \u00a32.40 in total!<\/p>\n<p>Plus the usual hijackings of the bus by, most often, the wife.  Stands just inside the door of the bus saying &#8220;My husbands just parking the car&#8221; leaving unspoken the thought &#8220;you can&#8217;t drive off with me stood by the door&#8221;.   You don&#8217;t think so :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, 193! A car park user got onto the P+R bus and I asked how many passengers they had. &#8220;Why do you want to know that&#8221;? &#8220;Because they need tickets printed for each of them so they don&#8217;t get charged on the return trip&#8221; I explained. &#8220;Is this something new&#8221;? &#8220;It&#8217;s been like that as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}