Train travel.

Can you? Who’s embarrassed?

I received a warning for suggesting that (how to put this appropriately?) you’re all Goebbels and no Himmler.

Meh.

 

My ribs are aching RS that crowed are so funny and don’t realise it, laugh I nearly got a round in , in the words of that famous entertainer who until recently was a guest of HM” “can you guess who they are yet”

 

Steady on facs........you might upset someone....I hope.
You getting a round in ?
you were in your demob suit last time that happened.

RS

 

I used that a lot too.

 

Thank you, Facs. I really did think “If she's as bright as a button, I guess it won't be long before she sits on your knee and asks "Tell me, granddad - why did some people take away my European citizenship? Why do they hate people who aren't like themselves? Why do they want other people strung up with piano wire? Granddad - why is your mind like a cesspit?"

Bless”

was one of my finest. And, like all good satire, it made a very valid point.

 

RS's jibe was hardly snarky. In fact it was hardly anything; he'd arrange a whip-round to send some of us up to remote Scotland. Lol, hold me up, man.

And it did set up our slightly sloshed colleague's unforgettable retort.

More, please.

 

No intention of paying the actual fare then,unless a ticket inspector boarded the train and asked for payment.
A permit to travel was only meant for use when the station ticket office was shut,not for fare dodging.

 

So as a kid, you never,ever, ever so slightly ever shafted the 'system', nicked a bottle of milk off someone's doorstep, pinched apples from someone's tree, built a den from materials swiped from a local building site, or even dared to travel on a bus or train and jump the fare? (an Americanism for you there, I know how much you like them ) Whilst not morally correct, I'd think most people would agree pretty harmless actions by and large for a kid in the grand scheme of things. Or not, do you think?

 

Of course it was. But in my mid teens i used to live in Biggleswade in bedfordshire, and regularly used the permits to get the train into Kings Cross around tea time. There was never a ticket inspector on board (they were all on the trains outbound from Kings Cross that time of day). Always did buy a ticket to get back home though

 

The point of the matter is,he boasts that he wants to pay more taxes for it to be sent abroad,then has the audacity to brag about defrauding British Rail.

 

But Blakey hates everyone anyway

 

I get that, but my point is, he was a kid when he was 'defrauding' British Rail. You can't surely judge someone on their actions decades ago compared to their beliefs and morals present day, otherwise we'd be vying for the death penalty for 55year old men who once pilfered lemon sherberts from the corner shop 45years ago. Be fair, mate.

 

And why would that be ?