Thursday, February 22, 2007

Change Ticket

Some things i learned on the bus today;

Though they give them out bus driver do not accept change tickets.

It is not of the bus drivers concern how i get to work.

In birmingham passengers do not speak to bus drivers

It is preferable to bring the correct change on the bus.

Bus drivers do not cary a float.

It is easy for me to reclaim the value of a change ticket at the bus station.

It is hard for a bus driver to reclaim the value of a change ticket at the bus station.

If one decides not to pay for a journey the driver switches off the engine and threatens to evacuate the bus once one has taken ones seat.

The bus driver still gets paid for doing this even though he is technically not driving.

Bus drivers are not good at mental arithmetic.



Some things my driver learned on the bus today;

I need to go to work.

We are not in birmingham.

Cash-points do not dispense coins.

It is preferable to carry a float .

I do not go to the bus station.

He goes to the bus station every day.

People do not get off a bus just because the driver says the word evacuate!

The change from a £4.80 change ticket and 50p for a £5.20 fair is 10p

Drivers do take change tickets...eventually.

Friday, February 16, 2007

Turning Japanese

No matter how attentively you listen you cannot learn Japanese by listening to people converse in it, not in an hour anyway.