(09 Aug 2014, 7:51 am)marxistafozzski wrote I could never blag a half fare when I was younger, in County Durham we had to pay full from 13, and because of my 'had a hard paper round appearance' I was rarely able to blag the driver...Though if my uncle was driving he would let me on for half, if he was having a good day, he would let me for nothing. My favourite blag when I was at college was pulling a £20 note out at 8am, Driver would have no change, tell me to get on and see him when we got to Durham, as it was mostly students with passes and employees with week/month tickets the driver would never take much money and I would always with a free ride...
I could not pick a fault at the drivers response, he did great, stopped the bus, radioed his control, Phoned the Ambulance, tried to comfort the guy and let the rest of us know what he was doing and why, he even apologized to us, even though he did not need to, I don't know Stagecoach policy on this, but he seemed to deal with it by the book...So yeah, I will say enough was done to help the guy, as much as a bus driver can actually do
When I used to get the 50 on a morning, there was a bloke that done the £20 blag every other morning without fail. He knew no driver was going to bother giving him £19.50 chage for his 50p concessionary fare, so he must have saved a fortune over the time I'd seen him. It was literally every other morning.