bigmeuprudeboy
Sir, you are a star. Those rude, arrogant tossers working for Thameslink deserve all the abuse they get. I've seen them harangueing customers in threatening tones on more than one occasion. Coming home at 6am after a night shift, I genuinely forgot to buy a ticket as you can walk straight onto the train at King's Cross from the tube (which I would do on the way home after an afternoon shift with that day's travelcard in my pocket already). Easy to do when you have been up all night. I only realised what I had done when I got up to Luton, and I made the mistake of going up to a gate guard and asking to buy a ticket rather than trying to sneak out (easily done). The twunt gives me a penalty fare *and* manages to overcharge me for my ticket as well. You certainly pay for being honest.

Then there was the time my wife (annual season ticket holder, £2,800 since you are asking) found there were no seats on the train to work and the punters were crammed in like battery hens. She takes a seat in the vacant 1st class, and when a ticket inspector (read: nazi) comes along she has no objection to paying the difference between 1st and the standard fare so she can remain seated. Does she get that? No, the arsehole decides that she has to be charged for a full price 1st class fare, ignoring the fact that she already had a valid standard class ticket for their stinking cattle truck of a train anyway. £30 for a 1st class seat that is only distinguishable from standard class by ... well, actually it isn't distinguishable from standard class in any way, they just cordon off 25% of the train to catch out travellers who object to the Auschwitz death-train conditions in the rest of the carriage. Cunts.

I normally drive to work now, but if I do take the train I'm going to try the same trick. I've been looking for more ways to repay the bastards. Cheers mate!
(Parkingtigers, Mon 16 May 2005, 11:12, Reply)