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PaulM · 22-11-2006, 16:25

I was getting a bus once and asked for School child fare (I was 14). The driver saw me smoking at the bus stop and asked "Do you smoke?" I said "Yes" and he said "Then you're not a child." I got worried and annoyed by this. The driver kept repeating how if I smoked, I was not a child, I kept arguing. Eventually.

Driver: *Sigh*, if you smoke you are not a child. Now, do you smoke?
Paul: Errrmmmm, no.
Driver: 35p please.

I thought that was very cool. I actually had met an unpleasant driver who I encountered many more times and he was unpleasant to all passengers. He once would not give me child fare, even though I had ID, as I smoked. I thought this chap was doing the same thing but it turned out he was just having a laugh.

22-11-2006, 16:25	#17
PaulM Really Regular Poster Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 826	I was getting a bus once and asked for School child fare (I was 14). The driver saw me smoking at the bus stop and asked "Do you smoke?" I said "Yes" and he said "Then you're not a child." I got worried and annoyed by this. The driver kept repeating how if I smoked, I was not a child, I kept arguing. Eventually. Driver: Sigh, if you smoke you are not a child. Now, do you smoke? Paul: Errrmmmm, no. Driver: 35p please. I thought that was very cool. I actually had met an unpleasant driver who I encountered many more times and he was unpleasant to all passengers. He once would not give me child fare, even though I had ID, as I smoked. I thought this chap was doing the same thing but it turned out he was just having a laugh.