On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:17:00 +0000, Clive
wrote:

In message .com,
writes
She doggedly claims that the reader didn't tell her her card had
failed, but since she hasn't claimed that it indicated that it had been
successfully read, then obviously it didn't, and she knows it. Or is
totally stupid.
If you're in a long queue and the bus is filling fast with a lot of
people with both travel cards and oysters it can be misleading at times
and the little green light can easily be obscured by another passenger.

Yeah, sure. Only if she was reaching round someone else and waving it
where she thought the reader was. In which case, we're back to
stupidity again.
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Nick Cooper

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