In message , Ian Jelf
writes
Trying to persuade some of my LU colleagues to use a bus when it is more
convenient than the Tube can prove somewhat challenging! "But it's a
bus?!"
I turned up to a training course north of Wolverhampton by 'bus once.
No-one else on it could believe that I'd done so. It was as thought
I'd just announced a breakthrough in nuclear fusion. No one wanted me
to go back by bus though; everyone felt obliged to offer me a lift!

I get that too when I appear at places. Even though I'm happy to use
the bus/train and get free travel too, people still feel sorry for me
and want to give me a lift.

They often get quite offended too when I say I'm happy to get home on
the bus/train too - even though I would be taking them out of their way
to do it.
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