On the train today, rush cost me more. See, I pay my weekly ticket on Tuesdays. I insert the expired ticket into the machine; then I insert the money into the machine; then the machine gives me a new ticket. Blind folded routine.
Today the machine asked me for a few more dollars. I thought what the? But the train was already on the platform. So I grab a few more coins and chuck them in the machine, vaguely remembering that I had read something about a fare rise. To my surprise, two tickets come out of the machine. I figure out the person before me left a pending sale. The machine did not make it obvious to me, and I wasn’t thinking. I was barely looking at the machine. I was only rushed on catching the train. So I run down the stairs, while the train doors were closing.
Stupid ticket machine!
I missed my train, wasted some money, and to top it all the person now sitting next to me stinks. I should have stayed in bed. Not my day.
Hope it eventually got better!
Hi Patrick!
Hope this message finds you well. Remembered about your blog today after having visted it a few weeks (or months?)ago when Maria told me about it. It seems to help kill some time. Here in Malta, traffic is everyday’s routine but unlike you, one cannot utilise time better in traffic.
Hope to post further future comments on this blog.
Unil then, goodluck
Mike