MONEY MORAL DILEMMA. Would you contribute to a stranger’s train ticket?

freelancemermaid

carolinosourus wrote: »

Thinking about it now, they didn't actually seem that grateful lol.

what a lovely thing to do, a random act of kindness. i wonder if they were in actuality very grateful, but too embarrassed to say so?

freelancemermaid

sharronsharron wrote: »

Defo think again before I share my hard earned!!

I"m so sorry that your lovely kindess was abused.
i hope you will in time change your mind, i believe that the vast majority of people are honest.

JayD

Yes I would help - hopefully I could encourage other passengers to help too, so it wouldn't be so much for just one person to find. But if they didn't I would pay all the £10.

yarnmama

YES, absolutely I would. It's been done for me and I would definitely pass that gift on to someone else. Even if it had'nt I would help if it was within my power to do so.

Beloved_Gasbags

Yes I would. Her attitude is right - she is desperate. I like Noggin's suggestion on her then giving to charity.:A

tryfive

Noggin_the_Nog wrote: »

No one has let me down yet and people typically add a bit on top!

How would you know? In the scenario given, you'd never see her again!

You're giving charity (i.e. to her) by offering to pay - but it's naive to expect that £10 to end up in the coffers of the registered charity you nominate!

tryfive

RuthnJasper wrote: »

If I could, I would help her. It's the right thing to do.

You hae GOT to be $%@KING KIDDING!

The "right thing to do" is for the train company to quit exploiting the situation by demanding FIFTY QUID!!! Think about the bank charges case - is the train company charging £50 reasonable? Is that what really what it would cost them?

NO IT IS NOT!

cheeky_chatters

:pcpm I'd try an judge the person first to see if its for real, an if it was I'd help her out. I might encourage someone else to go half

yenbat

I am so delighted to see so many positive responses to this subject as something similar happened to me and my family. We travelled by train for the first time recently ( in Engalnd ) and had tickets and seat reservations for that train but forgot the family railcard which apparently meant all our tickets were worthless. We were asked to pay £197 to complete our 45 minute journey and could not pay so had to leave the train.

I did not ask anyone to help us but there were many shocked faces in our carriage. We were not trying to fare dodge, just didn't have the correct documentation for the tickets we had bought two months in advance. I was keen to share this experience with other forum users and almost without exception I was told I was stupid for not knowing what I should have when travelling and that my family were no better than deliberate fare dodgers.

Oversights, misunderstandings and just bad luck can happen to anyone and an act of kindness goes a long way - especially to a stranger. It does come around if you are kind and the world would be a much better place if there was not an assumption of trying to be conned all the time. Sometimes acts of kindness do not cost any money - I once had a bicycle puncture on my way to work, had no pump with me and a complete stranger cyclist stopped, leant me his pump and offered his mobile phone for me to ring work, then rode off never to be seen again. I have never forgotten his kindness and it made me want to do the same for someone in distress.

There will always be con artists around but there are far more people who find themselves in genuine, unintended difficulty so let's show some empathy and hope that someone will help you in the same circumstances.

iwanttoliveinAustralianow

Surely this is EASY. The fact is.. the fine of £50 is OVERPRICED in the first place. Have you seen these ticket machines?? - they expect you to know the meaning of all those railway acronyms [FONT=&quot] and ticket types !!
Just like we did with the highly inflated bank charges - we should challenge the amount of the fine applied by the rail company (50 quid is definately too much!!) and the right not to be penalised for not carrying a credit or debit card.

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