Thursday, March 03, 2011
Robert's rules for using the London Underground
Number 1: If you have a rucksack remember to keep it on your back. Not only is it more convenient for pickpockets but your fellow travellers love the extra room it takes up and the way it bashes into them every time you move. Don't feel it at all necessary to, oh, I don't know, take it off.
Number 2: Do remember to hold your Oyster card on the reader for as long as you can. You don't need to, of course, a simple short touch as instructed is enough but why waste an opportunity to make the reader have an error just as the person following tries to use their card? There's nothing commuters like better than being held up at the gate, looking a complete tit while a million people stand angrily behind them cursing their stupidity while you swan off in the knowledge of a job well done. Really, they'll thank you!
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Number 2: Do remember to hold your Oyster card on the reader for as long as you can. You don't need to, of course, a simple short touch as instructed is enough but why waste an opportunity to make the reader have an error just as the person following tries to use their card? There's nothing commuters like better than being held up at the gate, looking a complete tit while a million people stand angrily behind them cursing their stupidity while you swan off in the knowledge of a job well done. Really, they'll thank you!
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Labels: London, london underground, Oyster, stupid, tfl, Tube
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Oyster, darling?
I just renewed my Oyster card online. Scary business. It's for an annual Travelcard for zones 1 to 6 and is the most I have ever spent online.
£1784!
I bought it with my M&S &more card so I should get plenty of vouchers next month.
Labels: Expensive, Oyster, Travelcard, Zone 6
