(03 Nov 2013, 9:06 am)CatsFast101 wrote You've hit the nail on the head about key cards, my brother who is few years younger than me is now in his last year of school, he gets a lift to and from school each day and should he meet friends he'll walk or get a lift, so he never uses buses really. Last December, he had to use a bus hime as my mother was working late so I thought with him getting older he may want/need to use buses a bit more so I ordered him a KeyCard from the internet. However, as he was only getting it just in case he uses a bus on the off chance, he soon misplaced the card and it is currently sitting unactivated lost somewhere. As he's now 15, he used the bus to the Sunderland cup game the other day and has to pay £3.15 (I think) Seaham-Sunderland.
Amazing isn't it.
Legally he isn't allowed to:
* smoke
* drink
* have sex
* vote
* buy a lottery ticket
* work
* leave full time education
* drive
But because he couldn't find a piece of plastic giving him an entitlement to members club 'reduced prices' (and I use reduced prices carefully), he is charged the same price as an adult who legally can do all of those things listed above.