I guess I really shouldn’t be driving a megabus if students can wind me up because they are are largest single megabus passenger group. Normally I let it just roll over me, smile, say thank you and get on with things. However, two young male students managed to wind me up in Brighton yesterday. The bus was loaded and as I pushed the door close button a young male who’d been sauntering down the road at the speed of a snail on tranquilisers arrived at the door and got on. “Got a bit of a problem, mate” was his greeting. He said that his booking reference was on his mobile ‘phone but the battery was flat so he couldn’t show it to me. He then asked if anything could be done about it. I told him that what he was asking was very unfair on the customers who’d arrived in good time and now expected to depart on time, he knew he had a problem so why couldn’t he arrive a few minutes before the bus was due to depart? No answer was forthcoming. I started to dial Perth Control and realising that he wasn’t going to be allowed on ‘on trust’ he then said “maybe I booked the wrong day, I can’t remember”! All this slow walking and arrival as the door closed was his way of trying to get me to think it wasn’t worth a delay to check his ticket out! As I now fully suspected he wasn’t booked on the journey so he didn’t get to London for free and he’d made sure everyone else got there 10 minutes late.<\/p>\n
Next stop and a similar age male got on and handed me a sheet of A4 paper which had been tightly folded about 64 times until it was the size of a first class stamp (an exageration but I’m sure you know what I mean). This is not as uncommon as you may think and I always wonder why passengers do it. Isn’t it simply politeness to hand over an open sheet of paper? So I had to unfold his grubby bit of origami, orientate it the correct way up, and only then be able to read the booking reference.<\/p>\n
I really am a grumpy old man today :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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