Paul G wrote:

In message .com, MIG
writes
I will recap on the correspondence.

I said "I was in Twickenham recently, and could not find anywhere that
could top up an Oyster."

This is a simple statement. I did not say anything about running out
of credit (whether I had or not). I might well have been trying to top
up for a journey four weeks ahead. I might not even have had an
Oyster, but been doing research.

The list of places provided earlier in this thread demonstrated that
there are a lot of places in Twickenham to top up Oyster. So it would
be unlikely that there was no where available.

That you could not find anywhere would depend on which part of
Twickenham you were in, how much effort you actually made (which you
didn't specify) and what time of day it was. I guess it depends on the
assumptions you were making - readers can't read your mind and are
entitled to make their own conclusions based on the information
available; no need to take offence, just correct the assumptions if
wrong.

Re. that you couldn't find anywhere, I can offer the following advice:
Open your eyes and take a good look around you (this may require minimal
effort); if this yields poor results ask passers by.


Given that I am not still stuck in Twickenham, I don't need any advice.
I certainly didn't ask for any. And given that the unsolicited
"advice" given so far has mostly been smug, patronising, offensive and
totally irrelevant, I'd probably still be there if I did.

Of course I just sat down with my eyes shut and didn't say a word to
anyone. How come my Oyster wasn't topped up? It's an outrage.

This isn't to say that this group isn't full of members who go out of
their way to give full, accurate and very helpful responses to
questions. ASDF's recent contribution to this thread will be useful to
me in dealing with a situation that I didn't know about (ie ticket
stops not selling the full range).

But I didn't ask for advice; I made a simple statement about being in
Twickenham which a few people have decided to censor by ridicule. I
can't guess at the motive, but it's obviously important to them.