(13 Nov 2022, 4:09 pm)F114TML wrote You could have "Mickey Mouse has a green willy" on the front and as long as the route number was right, people would get on.Think my favorite to date is a feew weeks ago on route 1 terminating at Seaton Carew. Obviously when I got to Elzabeth way, I'd left the destination as "Seaton Carew". It's company policy to stop anyway even though you know they won't get on. So stopped for a man and small girl on the sea front and immediately told him "It's only going as far as the Schooner", to which he replied "but it says town centre on the front". I then told him it doesn't, it says Seaton Carew and repeated that I finish at the Schooner. Off I went and a few stops later stopped for a woman and of course told her I finish at the Schooner. Her reply was "but it says Seaton Carew on the front". Now this confused me, so I looked blankly at her for a few seconds and finally replied "it does and we're in Seaton and this is where it finishes and I'm going back to the depot". I've no idea where she thought she was.
Worst one was when I was on the 16, I had "Fawcett Street" on the front, and a woman in Vine Place got on and asked where I was going to, I said 'only to the next stop'. "Oh. Are you still going to Red House, then?"
RE: Disruptions and driver shortages