I posted this story before but i think it's worth another shot!
When we were young lads we would always try to get child's fare on the train going in to galway even though we were 17 and too old
the ticket office was always closed so we would buy the tickets from the conductor person. La amhain, we got on and proceeded to buy our tickets on board. then the conductor looked at the stubble on my friend's face and said, "a childs fare? how old are you?" my friend replied "16"
the conductor wrote out the child's fare ticket and handed it to my friend, saying "by the way, you're 15 !!"
cool guy, no harm done and we were actually more inclined to pay the proper fare in the future cos we respected him!
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