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# You should change your passwords
(Also it was ten years back but I've been on the door of events where you deal with students. They seem to think you can shit coins out of your arse on demand. We had a whacking great float and assumed some people would be clever enough to go to the public bar and buy a drink and get change before coming and paying the £2.50 we were asking. How silly of us.)
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 3 May 2013, 10:44, archived)
# Yes West Street in Sheffield is a nightmare.
Bars up and down the road and they walk straight onto our buses after coming out of said bars with £5, £10 or £20 notes demanding that you should have change. We don't have a massive float we are given by the management £2.50 when we start the job and that has to see us through our entire career. A busdriver is always very protective of his/her float because once that's used up it's confrontation after confrontation. I've got in the habit of asking them if they have the correct change and it's remarkable that half of them just so happen to have the correct change, the other half probably have too but they like being arseholes and slapping down notes on the cash tray.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 3 May 2013, 10:51, archived)
# £2.50??? Blimey, I'd at least have expected £20 or so.
People are lazy and people are arseholes. It's easier to pull out a note and expect change than it is to spend an extra two seconds finding that that mess of coins in your pocket does actually cover the fare.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 3 May 2013, 10:53, archived)
# I was one of the luckier ones
drivers who started before me were lucky to get more than £1.50. I think they get £5 now.

Oh I've seen them fish out a handful of change look through it put it back in their pocket and pull out a £10 note. I then ask them "Can I have the correct change, please." and they look me dead in the eye and say "That's all I've got!"
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 3 May 2013, 10:54, archived)
# Well perhaps you should ask
For more change when you go out. If i have just been to the bank because i don't have any money and need to get on the bus i am unlikely to have less than a ten pound note am i?
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Fri 3 May 2013, 13:53, archived)