My monthly train ticket to London ran out earlier this week and as I’m on a late shift, I can get away with getting daily off-peak tickets. Except that one day I forgot, and only remembered just as I was about to get on the tube, having travelled the 40 miles into London without a ticket. Oops.
So I go to the WAGN ticket office at King’s Cross and ask the very bored looking guy if he can give me a 1-day travelcard from Biggleswade. He says that the only way he could do that is to give me a £20 penalty fare.
“So, what’s to just stop me walking off, getting a single home tonight, and getting a tube-only ticket right now?”
“Absolutely nothing, sir.”
I walked off, bought my tube ticket and went on my way. It doesn’t exactly motivate one to be honest about these things though does it?
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