On 26/01/2010 18:21, David Hansen wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:50:20 +0000 someone who may be Paul Corfield
wrote this:-

In other words its not up to the job.

No, in other words it is easy to be wise after the event when
circumstances have changed massively.

I'll put in a good word for it. In my extremely limited experience
of these contraptions they seemed to work well. The only exception
being on one of those bendy bus things where the yellow box wasn't
working (well I assume it wasn't working, as it had a red light on
it and didn't bleep when many people tried it). Given that I would
have had to surf over the heads of the passengers to get to one of
the other yellow boxes on the bus I decided to be a respectable
member of society by not even trying to pay, thus not upsetting many
people.

In non-bendy buses it is standard to travel free when the thing is
broken. Not sure if people without Oyster would be expected to pay!

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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK