Petty moan about bus change

paddyrg

I am lucky enough to live somewhere where buses give change, which is just as well as the minimum fare is an inconvenient £1.70. Tonight I had £1.55 in small change so paid with a tenner, which doesn't seem that unreasonable, not like it was a fifty or anything. Driver made a bit of a song and dance and so I said I was happy to take a 'change ticket' (like a credit note) if necessary. Reluctantly he gave me the coins then unrolled what must have been best part of £300 in notes including a big wodge of fivers. Not so difficult after all, eh? So why the song and dance?

Petty moan I know, first world problems and all that, but it's not the first time and there was a perfectly decent option offered!

Ilona

What do you expect from a man. :rotfl:You wouldn't have got that from a lady bus driver. :rotfl:
Ilona

pawsies

That's part of the job description!

Macca83_2

At my old job the bus driver would refuse to allow you to board unless you had the correct change. The job was situated out of town and there were no facilities to allow you to break notes. He would quite happily drive off leaving you stranded.

Money-Saving-King

If he had £300 of notes how's that going to help with the change situation? It suggests he's been paid loads of times with notes, that means his change really may have been struggling, not the other way around!

The_ICT_Engineer

Then there are the bus driver's who expect you to know every fare on any bus route in the country. I lost count of the number of time's, a driver has bellowed 'You should know the %&$# fare'.

Handsome90

Macca83 wrote: »

He would quite happily drive off leaving you stranded.

The bus company may be lambasted by the press if the passenger who he left stranded was violently attacked shortly afterwards. Wasn't a girl raped in Birmingham after the bus driver refused to board the bus as she didn't have enough money to pay for the fare?

paddyrg

Money-Saving-King wrote: »

If he had £300 of notes how's that going to help with the change situation? It suggests he's been paid loads of times with notes, that means his change really may have been struggling, not the other way around!

He also had rakes of coins fwiw but I do take your point. From a coin change standpoint it made no difference if I'd had a fiver, tenner, twenty - just the amount of huffing you sometimes get

scooby75

Had the complete opposite the other week. On one of the first buses of the day and had a fair bit of loose change so used that (10p - 50 p coins to make a fiver -mostly 50p and 20 p) thinking the driver wouldn't mind the change. Oh no!

The thanks I got was "F***in hell I've got to count all that?"

LimeLight

Our bus fares are £2.10!

bod1467

Our buses are correct-change-only. So you either have to have the correct change (e.g. £2.75) OR over-pay (e.g. £3.00) as the money goes straight into a coin-collector ... the driver only issues tickets; never touching the money. (This also means that NO notes are accepted).