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07:42:47 on Thu, 13 Dec 2007, jonmorris
remarked:

I must admit that when I was in Paris and we visited the Louvre, we
opted to go to a ticket window (with queue) instead of the many
(completely unused) credit card machines to ensure we got the right
tickets for four people.

And having been nabbed by the RER grippers several years ago for
unwittingly buying the wrong ticket from a machine, I would probably
want to try to buy from a person in future (despite a very poor grasp of
foreign languages).
--
Roland Perry