The bus driver on First Buses wouldn't take my fiver because it had a small rip in it
I showed him the metal strip, water mark, serial numbers etc and told him that he wasn't accepting a perfectly legal note for no good reason and told him that I would be late for work, he told me this was not his problem I called him a jobsworth. I wrote and complained. I wrote that if their policy was not to take ripped notes then fair enough but make it clear because a note with a small tear in it is still legal. What isn't fair enough is for their drivers to tell people that them being late for work is "Not their problem" I wrote that if they offer a service to the public then it probably is in their best interests to make it their problem if people don't want to be late for work.

I was sent an apology assurances that the driver would be told that his comments were unacceptable and trained on which notes were acceptable because according to their policies if a bank will take it so will they. They also sent me £10 in free travel vouchers which I took great pleasure in only using when I had the same driver again. I stuck it to him goshdarnit!
( Peej, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 17:08, 1 reply)

This
is all because the £5 note stock is all heading for terminal decline ahead of a imminent redesign and eventual replacement with a £5 coin. Banks will accept them in virtually any state but most of them are pretty rotten at the moment.
(gearanach #wankwankwank, Thu 17 Jun 2010, 19:33, closed)