Everyone's probably experienced this
Where you climb onto the bus, ask for a ticket and pull out...a note! And the bus driver looks at you like you've just felt up his wife and says: "You've got to be fucking joking."

I mean, for crying out loud, do they not issue you with change at the bus depot? Hasn't it occurred to anyone that your passengers might have come straight from the cash machine, and not the dole queue? Is there any reason to swear at me for trying to pay with legal money?

Twats.
(Bernard Bernoulli, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 10:33, 7 replies)

No, they don't issue drivers with change.
That's why there's a sign on the front saying "Exact Fare Only".
(gordonjcp, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 11:29, closed)

Depends where you get the bus surely?

( MetaFarad loves to TANZEN!, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 11:42, closed)

We don't have signs on the buses saying that.
If they don't have enough coins to change a note, some bus companies will issue a recipt which can be redeemed at the station.

Or you could be a cunt and use that to pay to get home aswell.
(TheColonel, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 11:55, closed)

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That sounds like a more sensible idea. And there's no "exact change only" signs where I live.
(Bernard Bernoulli, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 21:14, closed)

If you're somewhere that uses cash or prepay smart cards
then you're OK if you have a card and therefore the means to pay, whether or not you do actually pay anything. I got a bargain on the E3 in London at the weekend. The Oyster card reader was broken so I got a ride for nothing.

K2k6 90p, TfL 0.

Result.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:48, closed)

Favourite trick with one of the local companies
Very small, hardly ever have enough change. Wave a £20 at them, and they'll say sod it and wave you on.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 13:20, closed)

ive been on buses
not just in several different british cities but in different continents.

and it seems that birmingham stands proudly alone for not having any kind of change system at all, it's machines and you have the cash or it's nothing and you walk. what a shit system.
(zenmeban thinks the weather could be better, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 17:33, closed)