Advice...
I would hope that everyone knows this by now, but anyway: if anyone ever accosts you on the street or in the train/bus station claiming that they've lost their ticket and money and just need enough to get them home...they're lying. I used to live within a stone's throw of King's Cross station and I'd get this line every other night on my way home.

Sadly, I wish I'd been wise to this ten years earlier, when living in Montreal. Close to skint myself, I was naive enough to hand over pretty much the last of my cash to a very charming and friendly fella of my own age, who at the Metro station one day poured out a very convincing sob story. He even gave me his 'phone number so I could call and let him know where to send a refund when he got home.

Of course the people on the other end of the line had never heard of the guy, and I was genuinely surprised and disappointed to discover that I'd been had.

*poof* and my innocence was gone.
( reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Thu 18 Oct 2007, 15:18, 2 replies)

Stating the obvious, but
These people are really fucking it up for the poor sods who genuinely are stranded.

Cunts.
( Beve The Spaniard broke off his horse's head, Fri 19 Oct 2007, 11:50, closed)

I was genuinely stranded
in mile end when the cunt of a ticket seller retained my cash card.

The only one to bail me out was the homeless guy.
(jmaxi returned again on, Fri 19 Oct 2007, 12:32, closed)