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sebastiennePlaces I have no intention of ever going again:
The bitch-whore from hell at Edinburgh station ticket office
Emma and Sian(speaking to the same woman but on different days): I have an open return to Cambridge (to get to cambs from ed one changes from the main line at peterborough). I want to go to Haywards Heath / Oxford. Can I have a single from Peterborough to there, please?
BWfH: Can't sell you that. There's regulations.
E+S: What reguations? You are a ticket-seller. Perhaps I am naive, but I would like to buy a ticket, please.
BWfH: Can't do that now you've told me that you plan to BREAK THE LAW.
E+S: The fuck? We just want to go home!
BWfH: You can't break an open return. You have a ticket to Cambridge, and you will stay on the train to Cambridge, even if you colapse or a fire breaks out or Cambridge is obliterated by a terrorist atrocity.
E+S: Even though we have to change at Peterborough anyway, and not riding the connection to Cambridge frees up seats that people who actually WANT to go there can sit in? Given that, having already bought this open ticket, and then not using all of it, we are in effect giving your company money for nothing?
BWfH: Still not selling you a ticket.
E+S: We'll just buy them online then, yeah?
The Gloucester Arms
Emma: Collapses, after 8.5 hours on public transport with only a carton of custard for sustenance, in a pub that sells plentiful cheap food. They are not selling food, so she drags herself to get take-away, and Ashley gets the drinks in.
Robotic Barman: You can't eat that in here.
E: But I checked before I got it, you aren't selling food.
RB: You can't eat that in here.
E: (exhausted, starving, drags herself to her feet) I'd understand you not allowing me to eat this in here if you were serving food, because it would mean I wasn't spending the money in your pub. But you weren't.
RB: You can't eat that in here.
E: I get that, but I was just wondering if you could explain why? There doesn't seem to be any logic behind it - you obviously don't object to food in your pub, as you sometimes serve it; I'm just sitting in the corner eating chips, which in fact, you serve; my eating this in here means I've spent money on drinks that I otherwise would not have bought due to being somewhere else eating my dinner; I am not, in fact, doing anything that is damaging to your person, your company, or your premises - please, I just want to understand why this rule exists!
RB: You can't eat that in here.
E: Goes outside to eat chips. Collapses back into chair, leans onto Ashley, exhausted.
Old Git: Alright cheerful?
E: ignores
OG: I said alright, cheerful?
E: ignores
OG: goes on to be incredibly rude about my weight and my non-existent "drunkeness", tell me off for being rude by not responding to his taunts, and then for being rude in my response to them, to bring his friends over to stare at the Lesbians, to poke Ashley with his fscking walking stick...
Tigerlily
Emma: I'm looking for a couple of black 16-guage ball-closure rings with 3mm balls.
Hot piercer: Uhh, we've got these.. holds up 18-guage
E: Yeah, ok, can I have a look at one?
HP: Sure.
E: Takes one holds up to ear Yup, they'll do for what I want.. looks at other ring hey, isn't that ring a bit bent?
HP: Oh yeah, sorry swaps it for another one that's £8 please!
E: pays.. takes jiffy bag with BCRs in.. oh wait, one of the balls is now bigger than the other! turns back without even having left the shop
E: Hi, excuse me, I just bought this pair of earrings but they aren't a pair at all - look, one's a 3mm and one's a 4mm.
Clueless Emo Girl: What? I don't think so.. uhh.. I can measure them for you?
CEG: does so.. finds a mm difference
CEG: Oh, uh, yeah. But you've bought them now and they're body jewellry, so there's nothing I can do.
E: thinks: actually, under LAW, you've sold me something unfit for its purpose, as I specifically asked for a pair and for 3mm balls.
E: decides, based on the other two experiences detailed above: fuck this shit, I'm going home.
Have people always sucked this much, and I've only just noticed?
The bitch-whore from hell at Edinburgh station ticket office
Emma and Sian(speaking to the same woman but on different days): I have an open return to Cambridge (to get to cambs from ed one changes from the main line at peterborough). I want to go to Haywards Heath / Oxford. Can I have a single from Peterborough to there, please?
BWfH: Can't sell you that. There's regulations.
E+S: What reguations? You are a ticket-seller. Perhaps I am naive, but I would like to buy a ticket, please.
BWfH: Can't do that now you've told me that you plan to BREAK THE LAW.
E+S: The fuck? We just want to go home!
BWfH: You can't break an open return. You have a ticket to Cambridge, and you will stay on the train to Cambridge, even if you colapse or a fire breaks out or Cambridge is obliterated by a terrorist atrocity.
E+S: Even though we have to change at Peterborough anyway, and not riding the connection to Cambridge frees up seats that people who actually WANT to go there can sit in? Given that, having already bought this open ticket, and then not using all of it, we are in effect giving your company money for nothing?
BWfH: Still not selling you a ticket.
E+S: We'll just buy them online then, yeah?
The Gloucester Arms
Emma: Collapses, after 8.5 hours on public transport with only a carton of custard for sustenance, in a pub that sells plentiful cheap food. They are not selling food, so she drags herself to get take-away, and Ashley gets the drinks in.
Robotic Barman: You can't eat that in here.
E: But I checked before I got it, you aren't selling food.
RB: You can't eat that in here.
E: (exhausted, starving, drags herself to her feet) I'd understand you not allowing me to eat this in here if you were serving food, because it would mean I wasn't spending the money in your pub. But you weren't.
RB: You can't eat that in here.
E: I get that, but I was just wondering if you could explain why? There doesn't seem to be any logic behind it - you obviously don't object to food in your pub, as you sometimes serve it; I'm just sitting in the corner eating chips, which in fact, you serve; my eating this in here means I've spent money on drinks that I otherwise would not have bought due to being somewhere else eating my dinner; I am not, in fact, doing anything that is damaging to your person, your company, or your premises - please, I just want to understand why this rule exists!
RB: You can't eat that in here.
E: Goes outside to eat chips. Collapses back into chair, leans onto Ashley, exhausted.
Old Git: Alright cheerful?
E: ignores
OG: I said alright, cheerful?
E: ignores
OG: goes on to be incredibly rude about my weight and my non-existent "drunkeness", tell me off for being rude by not responding to his taunts, and then for being rude in my response to them, to bring his friends over to stare at the Lesbians, to poke Ashley with his fscking walking stick...
Tigerlily
Emma: I'm looking for a couple of black 16-guage ball-closure rings with 3mm balls.
Hot piercer: Uhh, we've got these.. holds up 18-guage
E: Yeah, ok, can I have a look at one?
HP: Sure.
E: Takes one holds up to ear Yup, they'll do for what I want.. looks at other ring hey, isn't that ring a bit bent?
HP: Oh yeah, sorry swaps it for another one that's £8 please!
E: pays.. takes jiffy bag with BCRs in.. oh wait, one of the balls is now bigger than the other! turns back without even having left the shop
E: Hi, excuse me, I just bought this pair of earrings but they aren't a pair at all - look, one's a 3mm and one's a 4mm.
Clueless Emo Girl: What? I don't think so.. uhh.. I can measure them for you?
CEG: does so.. finds a mm difference
CEG: Oh, uh, yeah. But you've bought them now and they're body jewellry, so there's nothing I can do.
E: thinks: actually, under LAW, you've sold me something unfit for its purpose, as I specifically asked for a pair and for 3mm balls.
E: decides, based on the other two experiences detailed above: fuck this shit, I'm going home.
Have people always sucked this much, and I've only just noticed?
