Bus driver rude over £10 note

Buzzybee90

OrkneyStar wrote: »

I have travelled on buses and trains, alone from about 11 or 12, short distances at first then longer as I got older. If I knew the fare I got the correct money (or close to) in advance, if I didn't then I always had £1 of change in 5, 10, 20, 50 pences and £5 of change in £1's and sometimes smaller, to make up what I needed. I just assumed everybody learned to do this, perhaps I was just 'lucky' enough to need to use public transport. It seems you might be learning this the hard-way now! Lifes lessons #325: bus drivers and change- how to do it the safe way . I did use a travel-card/zone-card for a while and that did make life easier, but like you say if it will cost you more then that's no use. Perhaps they do a ticket of say 10 single journeys or something- might be worth asking??

Yeah, no I never used public transport until I started university bar the occasional park and ride. There wasnt any, then at 17 I drove! But I do really try to have the right change normally, it's just I couldn't think a way around breaking the £10 for free until someone suggested the bank *doh*.

I have noted that my friends from towns and cities have much lower driving rates than my friends from home (villages), I actually can't think of someone who couldn't drive at 17. I guess it's swings and roundabouts (no pun intended :rotfl:)

Buzzybee90

paulineb wrote: »

Some bus companies do a flexi ticket, I know first in my area do, where you can pay for I think its ten journeys at a time.

I find a monthly ticket works best for me, its 52 pounds for 4 weeks unlimited travel and takes me around this area and all over the greater glasgow network, you cant buy those ones on the bus, you buy them at a paypoint and they are better value for money, the weekly ones you buy on the bus are £14 just for the local ticket.

I'm hoping to walk when it gets a bit warmer (she says!)

OrkneyStar

paulineb wrote: »

No, I havent had good experiences a few times, I really have no idea why, Im pretty quiet and polite and the only thing I can think of is that sometimes people take an instant dislike to you and they then develop a "thing" about you where they hate the sight of your face. Its horrible. I actually contacted first glasgow about one of them recently, I made it very clear I did not want the driver disciplined, but I described myself and the driver, I know his first name, he actually lives not far from me and I just said, please tell him to get out of my face and treat me like he treats other customers (some of them anyway, Ive seen him being jovial with other people) and that was after numerous times of me thinking, he'll stop treating me like this, but he didnt.

I do know that some drivers must get a really hard time from passengers. I go out in Glasgow now and then and I make a point of not getting some buses home, because some people are just full of alcohol, I'll tend to get a bus home around 11pm rather than do the night bus for example.

I always say thanks to drivers when I get off a bus, apart from the aforementioned idiots and I do appreciate it when a driver says something like have a nice day, because few of them around here bother.

My mum was telling me the other day that she was getting on the Glasgow express in our town and there were men running for it, the bus was sitting at the stop, the men got to the bus and the driver then shut the door in their face and drove off.

I actually think its a person thing, they'd be like that in any job where they had a wee bit of power, some people just take it to extremes.

You have actually reminded me of the time I almost threw some plums at a bus. I was waiting to go home and our bus was on a diversion route due to road works. I duly stood at bus stop that I assumed was one of the ones on the temporary route. Bus comes (after an age as our buses were not very frequent to my home town as it got later on, trains were quicker but I did enjoy the bus run more- time to chill before getting home!), driver catches my eye then proceeds to drive right past me!.....grrrr. I have had them drive past me in Glasgow by mistake, but I have ran from the missed stop through the town to the closest one by foot- made it quite a few times as it took them an age to get round the roads whereas I bolted across the pedestrian bit! Quite when I tell them what happened! One thing that does annoy me is folk chapping on the door at lights and expecting to get on/off- drivers can actually get in trouble if caught doing that! As I said though, on the whole they have been ok. Hopefully you'll have better luck soon, either that or you need a disguise..........

OrkneyStar

Buzzybee90 wrote: »

Yeah, no I never used public transport until I started university bar the occasional park and ride. There wasnt any, then at 17 I drove! But I do really try to have the right change normally, it's just I couldn't think a way around breaking the £10 for free until someone suggested the bank *doh*.

I have noted that my friends from towns and cities have much lower driving rates than my friends from home (villages), I actually can't think of someone who couldn't drive at 17. I guess it's swings and roundabouts (no pun intended :rotfl:)

I couldn't afford to learn at 17, father passed away just prior to that and we didn't have a lot of money. I used a zonecard/bus card to commute to Uni/work, bus service was ok daytime, not so good at night but trains were every half hour and only took 30 mins from my door to Uni, so it was fine. I learned at 23, and didn't use it much in the city but now I live in in the rural north I need it a lot more! Anyway, I hope, after this long saga of messages you will have decided, to be on the safe side it is a good idea to have some change? :p:p

sabretoothtigger

One time all I had was one and two pennies to put in the machine, I nearly choked it completetly. They can refuse in either case I guess though your reason about the cash point is very fair, mine was simple poverty

OrkneyStar

sabretoothtigger wrote: »

One time all I had was one and two pennies to put in the machine, I nearly choked it completetly. They can refuse in either case I guess though your reason about the cash point is very fair, mine was simple poverty

Do Asda and the like still have those machines where they turn change into bigger money? (I think you have to donate at least some of it to charity though, not so good if you poor at the time)- lol OP you need a reverse of this machine.....are there any old-fashioned sea side amusements nearby? Now there you will get plenty of change!

Dazedandconfused

The bus round here doesn't give change so you would have had to pay £10 for your ticket or not get on

WestonDave

Its not a problem here - get on the bus with two kids and get a return to town (just over a mile away) and you won't get any change from a tenner! (Then they wonder why people clog the roads up with cars and the buses run empty!)

paulineb_2

OrkneyStar wrote: »

Do Asda and the like still have those machines where they turn change into bigger money? (I think you have to donate at least some of it to charity though, not so good if you poor at the time)- lol OP you need a reverse of this machine.....are there any old-fashioned sea side amusements nearby? Now there you will get plenty of change!

Im not sure, Asda and Tesco used to have one in my area, used it on a few occasions.

OrkneyStar

paulineb wrote: »

Im not sure, Asda and Tesco used to have one in my area, used it on a few occasions.

I have only seen them in Asda, never used them in case they ate all my money!