The wife asked me to top up her Oyster card on line so I was looking at her
previous travel to see how much she needed. A couple of weeks ago I saw that
she used the Overground to Willesden Junc but then no bus to to Willesden to
go to college but did use the bus on the way back.
I asked her what happened and sods law an inspector checked her card but she
said the reader didn't work. The inspector checked with driver who confirmed
it was not working. I guess she was lucky.

Kevin

"tim......" wrote in message ...

Got on the bus on Saturday, and concentrating on the stupid tiny little
screen so that I should see my remaining balance I didn't notice whether I
got a red/green light (or a beep)

When nothing came up on the screen I asked the driver if it had registered,
and she said no.

So I "tapped in" again and got "card already used for this journey", driver
looked bemused, I shrugged and sat down.

And now on obtaining a printout of my journey history I find that I didn't
make a registered bus journey at 18:00 on Saturday.

So how did that happen (and I dread to think what the conversation would
have been if an inspector got on - he wouldn't have believed me, would he!)?