Excerpt from a IM conversation with my friend Cat, I would re-write it, but I am too idle:
Today, I was done for a £20 penalty fare for going one stop passed my ticket
I am going to fight it
Just to cost them £20 dealing with me
I may have used a swear word beginning with F
and he said that swearing was an £80 fine
I fear I may have become less concerned at the lot of the low paid working man at that point
It’s like being in fucking Germany
circa 1941
Cat: well give a man a hat and he becomes some kind of nazi i find
I bought a £27 ticket
to sit in a cramped seat
on a dirty train
which takes 42 minutes now - took 25min 15 years ago
and then I overshot by one stop
all of 3 miles
and paid the excess fare of £1 fucking 50
and the cunt fined me £20
When I refused to give him name and address, he said he would call police - I should have called his bluff
I may have thrown the ticket on the tracks - should have been in his face
Cat: rail conductors, security guards, traffic wardens…all the fucking same
yes
there were two kids
about 14-15
had done the same as I (that train doesn’t stop at our station, but one overshoots and walks back)
they were happily fining them £20 each too
I mean, how fucking petty
Cat: I do so hate officious twats
