What is it about Saturday's? The amount of lost property calls that go out over the radio on a Saturday equals the rest of the week put together. Usually the person who may or may not have actually left property on the bus approaches a driver or the Paignton controller and explains the problem. Then the radio burst into life with, "Any 12/12A left Paignton in the last 15 minutes heading for Brixham got any lost property." Or "Could all 32s check their buses for a missing mobile phone?" One time a few years ago, on the last Saturday before Christmas a passenger handed me a wallet containing £97.90, a debit card, a receipt for £100 from an ATM, a child return ticket Paignton to Torquay (£2.10) and a set of door keys. Christmas shopping over before it had begun plus no return ticket and no door keys. The passenger who had lost the wallet asked an other bus driver what she should do. He got on the radio and I was able to let the driver know I had the wallet and what time I would be back in Torquay and an hour and a half late Christmas shopping got started. This was a good result but why so much lost property on a Saturday?
Today the calls just seemed to go on and on. We try our best but not all passengers who find things on the bus hand them to the driver, unfortunately. Please look after your property when you get on a bus, saves lots of trouble.
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How was the rainy bank holiday?
The most amazing things get left behind (as I think we've discussed before)...
I well remember a slide trombone...
and hundreds of walking sticks (if you needed it to get on, why didnt you need it to get off?)...
and dozens of pairs of glasses (couldn't you see you'd left them behind?)...
but the one that still bugs me...the artificial leg...oh god...
Cold and windy and now wet. Just like all Bank Holidays.
As long as nobody loses their life on your bus, you're OK hehe
we had £2000 pounds left on one of ours once, the lady who'd left it was cashing in and could'nt get to the bank, so she decided to take the money home for safe keeping, lol
All drivers on the 12/12A please be on the look out for lost brains today please...
Last week; Cumberland sausage on rear seat! No-one claimed it & it was duly microwaved and consumed in the staff canteen.
iam amazed at what people lose i work at nottingham uni as a porter and i get many students asking if a pen drive or mobile phones and even mp3 players have been handed in, and 9 times out of 10 the items dont get handed in, you'd thought if it was something inportant like that you would check if you got everything before you leave a class room
A briefcase containing £35000.
The owner was on the way to the showroom to buy his brand new Mercedes.
And I never even got the price of a pint for being honest... Humph!
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