"Jiminy" wrote in message
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On 02 Oct 2004 18:22:09 GMT, (Wanderingjew698)
wrote:

Can i buy them the night before?

Last week I was sleeping in an area where I have to catch the bus
first to get to the tube. The man at the counter at Lewisham told me
that "you can buy only AFTER the 9:30 of the day you're travelling"
and, appearing to me a stupid rule, I insisted and lost a bet with my
son (now living in London) that gave reason to that guy...

Typical of SET counter staff who seem to know virtually nothing about ticket
validity. I have had so many problems with this at Bexley; the staff are so
amazingly wrong (and so patronisingly arrogant when you try and disagree
with them - oh no, they must be right, they're the ones selling the
tickets...)

I can only assume they have had no proper training whatsoever, and can't be
bothered to read the fares manuals.

"Rich Mallard" typed

Typical of SET counter staff who seem to know virtually nothing about ticket
validity. I have had so many problems with this at Bexley; the staff are so
amazingly wrong (and so patronisingly arrogant when you try and disagree
with them - oh no, they must be right, they're the ones selling the
tickets...)

I can only assume they have had no proper training whatsoever, and can't be
bothered to read the fares manuals.

Buy your ticket from a sweet shop; the queues are shorter, the staff
friendlier, never short of change AND you can get a Mars bar...

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

Helen Deborah Vecht wrote to uk.transport.london on Mon, 11 Oct 2004:

Buy your ticket from a sweet shop; the queues are shorter, the staff
friendlier, never short of change AND you can get a Mars bar...

Except that they know what they are doing even less than does the
average ticket kiosk person. My local man insists you have to have a
Travelcard to buy a weekly bus pass (because his stock of paper bus
passes still have a space for the photocard number), and refused
point-blank to sell me an Oyster card on the grounds that "Paper tickets
are better, the others don't work". So I've not been back to him.
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 26 September 2004