Another 'jobsworth' pillock on the buses

If they sack the driver, they will go to a tribunal and get a massive payout, as technically it is illegal under the Coinage Act 1971.

...however yes, the driver is a tw@t of the highest order

If I saw a woman with a child not able to pay their fare I'd pay it myself. Seems a bit fierce not to let them on.

a cockney probably

she has to be a bit mad herself - how come she had at least 60p in coppers but no silver? maybe she had hit the jackpot on the slots at the funfair and was treating herself to a bus ride home 

The driver wants to meet her to apologise.

"If I saw a woman with a child not able to pay their fare I'd pay it myself."

Me too.

brendanuk1   
18 Jun 15 15:14 
a cockney probably

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id pay too only if i had spare change mind

Back in the early 70s me and a mate got on a bus from Stratford Broadway to Clapton dog track.

In an attempt to dodge the fare, I gave the conductor a £10 note for both faresm which was about 40p.

The coont gave me £9-60p in silver

£10 decent dough then my dad on £30 a week74 he had good factory job

It went back in the shop float the next morning, the dog won.

lucky know a few who tried that 1 too often

I didn't work for a big company back then, I worked for an independent, and did so from then right up to 2008 when he retired due to a robbery, and closed the last of 4 shops. If I did my dough he used to get it back bit by bit. He knew I wasn't going anywhere, nobody else would employ me cash in hand for that many years.

It's illegal (apparently) to pay more than 20p using 1p and 2p coins. 


At the risk of sounding pedantic...  it's not illegal BUT it isn't legal tender. ie you can offer payment but a vendor is not obliged to accept the payment.

Anyway, of course he should have accepted the fare. I would have thought the bus company would have a policy in place for this sort of scenario.


Back in the early 70s me and a mate got on a bus from Stratford Broadway to Clapton dog track.

In an attempt to dodge the fare, I gave the conductor a £10 note for both faresm which was about 40p.

The coont gave me £9-60p in silver

5p and 10p pieces were a lot bigger and heavier back then. In the late 70s, I gave a conductor £5 for a 5p fare. He gave me £4.95 in silver.

The last bus of the night from Walthamstow to Victoria Docks was the cheapest.

Once it passed Stratford there no more inspectors. The conductor would get his money counted and boxed up, and put his till roll away. Free ride, plus smoking on the lower deck.

My dream of travelling the world by bus after a massive payout on a 2p pusher machine dies a death :(

I read that a cheque doesn't need to technically be on paper and someone once payed a bill to someone he didn't like with a cheque on a toilet seat :)

Someone once wrote a cheque on a cow.

and an egg, although a lot of such stories are probably apochryphal