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.
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Fri 3 May 2013, 10:51,
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£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.
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Fri 3 May 2013, 10:53,
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I was one of the luckier onesdrivers 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!"
(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!"
maiden is filmed before a live studio audience,
Fri 3 May 2013, 10:54,
archived)