On 8 Jan, 17:15, brixtonite wrote:
Finally went to Green Park on Monday evening, where there was no queue
at the ticket office, and though the ticket clerk hadn't heard of it,
after my showing him the fares leaflet he had a go on the system and
managed it without too much difficulty. Still took long enough that
there were some annoyed people in the queue behind me though!

OTOH, I'd bet a penny to a pound that nearly all the annoyed people
behind you were seeking to waste the ticket clerk's time by doing
stuff that the machines could have handled anyway.

....in fact, thinking about it, it makes me angry that clerks get
annoyed about people seeking to carry out transactions at the ticket
office that are difficult and take time. Of course they sodding are;
anything easy or urgent could be done at the machine, and anyone who
tries to speak to a clerk to buy a ticket that's also sold at the
machine thoroughly deserves to be made to wait.

[sarcastic hyperbole]Or preferably shot[/sarcastic hyperbole]

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