I had an early start today, book on 04:50, drive out of service to Bournemouth and then leave as the 06:00 to London. The next pick up point is Ringwood where I had 6 people on my list as having bought tickets, I got there about 4 minutes early and found no one at the stop. I sat and waited patiently until the 06:30 timetable departure and went on my way. It’s not uncommon for MegaBus control to ask us for copies of our tachographs – some passengers, when they’ve missed the bus, ring MegaBus control and say they were at the bus stop before time and haven’t seen a bus so “It must have run early”! Thankfully a tachograph doesn’t lie and should one or more of this mornings 6 try to claim I ran early I have my proof of arrival at 06:26, static until 06:30 and then on my way. Before anyone says “Why don’t you wait a few minutes for the non-shows?” I’ll answer that by saying you could be there all day! In 18 months of driving MegaBus I’ve never had EVERYONE turn up for the bus.<\/p>\n
On my way home I dropped into Sainsburys and as so often happens when I go into Sainsburys I get cross and wonder why I ever bother shopping there. Went to buy a pack of scones and saw a big notice in front of the scones saying ‘Buy two, save 30p’ while printed on the pack it said ‘Buy 2 for \u00a31’. What’s wrong with that you may wonder, well the single price for a pack is 62p. So I asked the bakery Manager to tell me what I’d be charged at the till “\u00a31 for the 2 which is 30p off the price of 2”. “No it’s not I said”. He didn’t seem to grasp what this was about, he thought I was playing mathematical games with him so we took it slowly. He accepted that two packs would normally cost \u00a31.24 so if 30p was deducted for buying the two packs the cost would be 94p. But, the pack itself said ‘Buy 2 for \u00a31’. Bingo! He got it but didn’t have a clue what I’d have to pay at the till :-( I know we’re only talking a few pence here but it’s the carelessness of it which makes me cross. Everytime I go into a Sainsburys I spot something wrong. Sainsbury’s are much worse than Tesco for this sort of thing.<\/p>\n
P.S. The memory card didn’t arrive which is why I’ve had time to write this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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