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I can think of few if any things that seem more stupid than tea to skimp on as a retailer. The mark-up is massive whatever you do and the marginal cost of extra hot water / bigger cups is nil. This is especially the case if you have your own tea-bag as tends to be he norm. If you're being...

I don't know why I know this, but I'm positive this is correct, and Gloucester Rd is not intended for connections for this very reason.

Nah, you need to get to the state line before them there smokeys'll stop chasin' ya.

OK, suppose Monty (say) asks me (say) for my NI number. He does it very politely but (as you might guess) I get a tad irritated and reply, politely enough but perhaps a bit huffily, that he has no business asking for it (those probably aren't my exact words). Is it reasonable that this will...

Fair enough, I think we are clear. One irony in this is that I no longer live in the UK, the country in which I live has an "identity gestapo" culture as a poster above described it, and an official in the equivalent situation asking for the equivalent information would be quite standard...

Wrong question. The right one is: do I have any right to know it? It's probably not against the law to ask a female traveller her bra size, but I doubt you'd do it. Did you really write this?

You need retraining. It's terribly wrong and this is 100% obvious. The whole point is that plenty will give it up, not knowing they can refuse or be intimidated. If you can't see it's way out of line that's one thing. If you are actively being told to do this by your TOC it's little short of...

It sounds to me like anything less than a shrugging acceptance of the full fare would have been regarded as "obstructive" and "smug". We're fairly often reminded that passengers facing genuine ticket irregularities call into question the attitude and approach of staff facing them. Well it...

Perhaps more accurately, the restauranteur sells the drinks for consumption by anyone. They could theoretically elect to sell them for consumption by you only - at least whilst you're on their premises - but, fairly clearly, do not do so. The railway operator sells tickets on a...

If we lived in a society where one accepted the consequences of ones dimwittery, rather than looking upon it as an opportunity to prise some compensatory advantage from someone else for not reminding one to not be a dimwit, we would perhaps need many fewer instances of people being told not to...

Oh my goodness this. I'm currently struggling with an application where the biggest problem is even thinking of all the eventualities to give the client the flexibility it (says it) wants. The client is obviously a huge idiot btw :D I liken the experience to that kiddies game where dinosaur...

This really does depend on how mobile you are (I understand with kids in tow and luggage mobility may be not all it could be), how you value your time and how much you like rather long journeys underground. Particularly when I'm traveling alone, and I transit regularly from Stansted to Surrey...

Other than it being identical to the scenario dealt with a dozen posts upthread, yep.

I want to pay by Rail Travel Vouchers. I have a pocketful of cash and a wallet stuffed with credit cards, but I've decided RTVs are the thing for me. I want to board at some station on the Heart of Wales line (say). It has a working TVM which takes cash and cards. Should ATW lose its franchise...

What's your point?

Time-cost-economic benefit calculations are difficult and one runs the risk of making oneself look rather stupid with simplistic analyses, as some of those involved in the background to HS2 have discovered.

Nice bit of Christian kindness there. I suspect this kind of thinking underlies a lot of the sort of piffle we see, on this and other threads, which boils down to "I think that the TOCs are morally corrupt horrible organisations so that means I can do what I like with impunity." Actually...

People look at me as though I've got 3 heads often enough as it is. Going into a ticket stop and asking for that is guaranteed to yield precisely that reaction.

Just as well I'm not a Christian then, since stealing money out of fellow passengers' pockets (which is what you're talking about here) is not part of my personal ethical code.

Apologies in advance for the po-facedness (well not really, since po-facedness when it suits is stock-in-trade around here) but I do wonder why tales of widespread criminal fraud against a TOC are accompanied by a :) It's especially incongrouous with TOCs occasional failures to allow...