But the new machines have a labour saving device that Cuts the ticket for you, no need to waste hard won energy, which is so expensive these days. The makers of the machine understood that there would be a transitional problem, passengers would sill expect to have to pull the ticket out of the machine not realising that this was a) unnecessary and b) would jam the machine. So they stuck a neat little notice just below where the ticket emerges in the hope that the existence of this labour saving device would come to the notice of the travelling public. But there is a slight problem, isn't there always?
Now what did that notice say?
So today when someone bought 3 return tickets and pulled them before the cutter had done it job, it's only job, the job it came into existence for, what would a ticket cutter do if it couldn't cut tickets, I'll tell you. It jams the printer. Next lot of tickets didn't print because the cutter had so much paper stuck in it the whole thing gave up. I almost did too. I opened the printer door and unjammed the cutter re set the paper and closed the printer door and pressed a couple of buttons that should have sent a few inches of paper in to the outside world and cut it off. Did it? Starts in n, ends in o, nothing in between. Several attempts and about 2 hours later the controller wanders over and spent just 7.348 seconds fiddling with the damn thing and it works perfectly. By now 27 people had also wandered over and wanted to get on the bus. By now I should have been half a mile down the road. By the time I sold all 27 passengers their tickets (the cutter worked perfectly) I should have been 2 miles down the road. An other reason for being late. Yes I know, they seem to be increasing by the week. Please wait for the cutter to CUT.
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one day it will all be mobile phone "tickets" purchased by text and read by your scanner. they could even embed a chip in the legions of passes. then all you will have to do is turn and smile from time to time. course that one day could be a decade or two away!
Just shout at them to wait for the bloody GREEN light on the top of the machine. They will look at you with a blank expression on thier face by then the dam cutter would of done its one and only task.
I'm too polite to shout at anyone.
Or you could use the wooden ruler across the back of the knuckles that works. But dont the the boss know.
Don't you just love those bright ideas! They always end up being very dim.
I've done this the other day and i couldn't believe the attiude of the bus driver and the snar remarks he starte dmaking about. Blaming a passenger for computer hum interaction error which happens with machinery. He started muttering to himself as some of the stagecoach drivers often do seeking attention from passengers and looking for sympathy. the driver was totally crying wolf and instead of just accepting it he started acting all funny about it. who do these bus drivers think they are. There is actually a law that makes it an offense to go making snar remarks towards people and against there librty as individuals rights.
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