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Title: EK On Queuing Behind Pensioners At The Ticket Office Post by: Lee on April 15, 2008, 11:08:14 Quote from the latest Economy Klaus blog post link :
http://firstlatewestern.blogspot.com/2008/04/trouble-with-queuing.html Quote from: Economy Klaus "Will you be travelling out after 9.25am?" "I will...but my wife won't. She'll be catching a different train at Melksham, then leaping from the roof of her carriage onto the roof of mine at Swindon like in Von Ryan's Express...as long as her arthritis isn't giving her gip...in which case we'll need someone to meet her on the platform and carry her in a fireman's lift to the toilet and back again..." Title: Re: EK On Queuing Behind Pensioners At The Ticket Office Post by: devonian on April 15, 2008, 16:28:43 I got stuck behind an elderly lady at Newton Abbot who, when asked to enter her PIN kept on entering the price of the ticket which promptly messed the card reader up :D Well over 20 mins.
Title: Re: EK On Queuing Behind Pensioners At The Ticket Office Post by: Graz on April 16, 2008, 10:46:01 EK always gives me a good laugh these days :D And I'm afraid I have to agree, I have been in those situations...
Title: Re: EK On Queuing Behind Pensioners At The Ticket Office Post by: Lee on April 17, 2008, 19:39:27 From the EK blog comments section :
Quote from: Topham Hatt Next time, you ought to gently remind the elderly people that they can now travel from one end of the country to the other for nothing, using their free bus passes. That should get them out of the train station. Title: Re: EK On Queuing Behind Pensioners At The Ticket Office Post by: Chris from Nailsea on April 17, 2008, 22:14:10 Yes, I'm quite fond of the dear old pensioners as well, but ...!
I rather liked vacman's earlier version of that particular scenario (as you can tell!): http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=1877.msg13831#msg13831 ;) :D ;D Title: Re: EK On Queuing Behind Pensioners At The Ticket Office Post by: Lee on April 17, 2008, 22:27:14 Ah, you've obviously met my mother-in-law, vacman? ;D Well, I havent met your mother-in-law, Chris, but I certainly make sure I buy my future mother-in-law's advance tickets on her behalf before she travels down to visit..... ;D This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |