HW: ticket tale

[Tim]

My vote's for fear of PMS!!
tim
Jill Strobridge wrote:
 >
 > So here I was offering to get someone a ticket for Glasgow.   No problem
 > I thought - just go along to the Virgin shop in Edinburgh and pick one
 > up..... but Edinburgh Virgin had sent all their remaining tickets to
 > Glasgow and had none left.   So I phone up Glasgow.   Nope - they'd all
 > sold out - but try again on Monday.   So I phone (from work) on Monday.
 > There's one left - Ok I take it!    Can you post it?  Nope.  Whaaat?
 > Nope.  You have to come and collect it.   You're joking?  All the way
 > from Edinburgh to Glasgow just to pick up one ticket?  Yep.   For f*cks
 > sake.....
 >
 > ok leave work - 40 mins on the bus to the train station.   10 mins on
 > the platform waiting for...... nothing.   30 further minutes on the
 > platorm waiting for something to turn up  (NB this is supposed to be a
 > shuttle train service every 15 minutes!)  only this version stops at
 > every tiny station in places I never knew existed before it finally
 > arrives in Glasgow.   Too late.   As I leap off the train I know the
 > shop is already closed - but what choice is there?   A sprint out of the
 > station,  up the steps, under the arch, along the road and.......... the
 > doors are closed.   I shake them.  I hammer on them.   They stay closed.
 > The shop guys counting the till money keep counting the money.  They
 > turn their backs and are not going to listen.   Damn the lot of them!!!
 >
 > So I'm angry now.  Fed up, irritated, peeved I pull out my mobile phone
 > (they do have uses!) and dial the shop.   No one answers.    Try again.
 > And someone responds!    I explode:  "I've come to pick up a ticket but
 > your shop is closed.  You refused to send it to me in the post and told
 > me I had to come and collect it.   So I've come.   And I'm here   And
 > I've made a special journey from Edinburgh and I paid £7.50 for the
 > train but it was delayed.    And now your bloody doors are locked and I
 > can't get in!!!"
 >
 > Well - maybe I sounded like I was about to burst into tears (maybe I
 > was) but a miracle happened.   He said "wait there I'll be right down".
 > And he was.   He came down - got someone to unlock the doors, checked
 > the card number and, wonder of wonders, gave me the ticket.    So there
 > ARE nice people in the world and maybe it was because it was a Hawkwind
 > ticket - or maybe it was for some other reason but he did A Good Thing
 > there and though I've no idea what his name is - thank you sir!!
 >
 > jill
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 > Jill Strobridge <jill at theta-orionis.freeserve.co.uk>
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