As you may know, I’m sometimes “out and about”, this time in the area covered by South West Trains. I happened to be travelling back with them yesterday evening, with a pre-booked, paid for, I had it in my hand [ooo-err missus] ticket.
I got on the train that was earlier [there’s one an hour]. On a one-third full train I was instructed to get off at the next stop, even after other passengers sided with me and called him a ‘jobsworth’ and one even said that he ‘must have been bullied at school’. After confirming with him that it would have been no cheaper for me to use the ticket I had and that I obviously had no intention of evading my fare I was told to either pay £65 for a ‘valid’ ticket or he’d call the Police.
I waited an hour at the next stop, as there is only one an hour, for the next train.
Whoever you are, I’ll just call you twat, I salute you. Oh, and thanks for thinking I would pay a £26 penalty fare.