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There must be a pushback against 'cashless' race meetings!
There must be a pushback against 'cashless' race meetings!
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jimnast
i would have left you 2 on the Friday for the Saturday. good luck Ronnie. |
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"It is the way the world is going and the cost of managing cash is immense. In the last decade when we operated with cash, we'd have 20 staff here until two or three in the morning counting it. We'd then have to process it, send it to the bank and make up about 200 floats."
Gross exaggeration imo. If it were true it just highlights what customers want. There's a much better solution. Make cash an option and charge a surcharge, or a discount for cashless. |
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Yes jimnast for the life of me I can't think why you would use a bus in an emergency. Surely you'd call an ambulance, get a cab, flag down a car
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Ok Clydebank
Young couple go for a night out have a fall out late on young girl only has a couple of quid on her but needs to get home as it’s dark ,no cards on her as she felt she wouldn’t need them or just forgot them. Mother at the shops gets a call from school her son has had a bad accident and she needs to get to the school she doesn’t possess cards and doesn’t know any taxi numbers. That’s two minutes of my life wasted |
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https://youtu.be/zGiM5SSAvxs
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As for flagging down a car nowadays the only ones that will stop are the ones you don’t want to stop.
Call an ambulance  |
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Neither are emergencies in my book and both scenarios are so unlikely I'd think they were made up.
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An emergency is if you are injured or about to give birth or being chased
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If you are being chased you get on the bus anyway
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You don't get on a bleeding bus if you need immediate medical attention ffs
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Cashless race meetings are no problem - don't go.
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Well Clydebank if you don’t think a young girl needing to get home at night isn’t an emergency then fair enough.
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If a young girl has runaway that is an emergency. A young lady on a night out is not.
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Don't try paying with a card in a Sam Smith's pub -they don't accept them. (And don't use your mobile/tablet in the pub).
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If young lady has no phone or payment method because her handbag is stolen she can't pay for the bus period. If she is frightened and no one else is around to help her she gets on the bus and tells the bus driver to call the police.
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When I lived in York, manoleeds, I frequented 'The Brigadier Gerard'. Excellent brews (the stout is,
imo, better than the well-known brand) reasonably priced. No bleedin TV/music blaring away and lots of Brigadier memorabilia. A proper pub where people actually engage in conversation instead of staring at a mobile phone screen. I hope it hasn't changed since then. |
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That’s correct manoleeds and all the better for those who choose to use there pubs.
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What is probably quite common is a 12 year old (boy or girl) has forgotten to bring their travel card for the bus and is stranded at school. I think the policy locally is that the bus driver will allow them on the bus. It's not an emergency though. Not in my book anyway
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I used to walk to school by myself aged 9. Will have been over half a mile. Times have changed, maybe for the better.
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I used to walk to school by myself aged 9.
Explains a lot. |
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As does your username Dr
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Only half a mile!
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Going off topic but the tenant of one Sam Smiths pub told me the problem with not taking cards is that a family of four walk in for Sunday lunch . Before taking the order mine host advises them that they don't take cards but there is a cash point five minutes walk away -so they head off to the cash point but that is past two pubs that do take cards and they are never seen again . It's one thing to pay £20 for a round of drinks in cash but having maybe £120 in your wallet for drinks and a two course lunch for four is another.
Funny thing about their phone policy is you can be sat in the corner reading the Racing Post paper but you can't be sat in the corner browsing the Racing Post website. |
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Stevo I had a nasty injury playing football that required several stitches. Think I walked to hospital
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It's not an emergency and if you happened to have only cash or no cash the bus driver would've taken you and your mum for nowt
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If it was an emergency you'd think one of your team mates parents would've driven you there tbh
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Yes stevo sadly gone along with booth hall childrens hospital
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I'm for buses taking cash payments if customers want it, just don't think the emergency argument is valid.
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56. You would be right that far more people have cars now than in the past.
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Ah the 53 bus stevo use to get that bus to the zoo the funfair ,the speedway and then when older the greyhound’s,booth hall is a hospital we all spent time at even my 3 children all had reasons to go there,I don’t think you waited very long to be looked after ,I still have a walk over the road through the clough now and then.
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To Regbutler...good luck to the guy 'lending' his member's badge out like that but it must have been some time ago now.
That's because Hereford is an ARC course and all entry to ARC courses are controlled by an annual member having to have their bar-coded membership card scanned upon entry. In other words, entry is not via a member's badge. The membership card can only be scanned once on each day, so other people could not have gained entry using that. Even before that, at every course I've ever been a member at someone on the gate would tick the number of your annual badge off a list as you entered so as to stop the scam you are talking about. So, I don't know how the guy you saw was pulling his little sting off? For a while even after membership cards came into use, there used to be a scam at Doncaster whereby you would go to the County Stand reception and show your member's badge from another track (membership of one ARC course gains you entry to all the others) and the people on the desk would give you a plastic County Stand badge for the day plus a bar-coded entry ticket to use at the scanner. But a few clued up people would use their membership card to go through the scanner and then go and sell the unused entry ticket through the metal fence to a wiling buyer outside. So badly run was Doncaster (and it hasn't improved very much either) that the reception staff didn't know there was no need to issue an entry ticket! They are now more clued up over that scam at least. |
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what happens if we get those proposed power cuts ? and the tills /computers shut down for 3 hours will the cards still be useable?
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The knight are you at York today if so do you want a couple of club for Saturday free of charge. Look It
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Will drug dealing become cashless?not a great example granted but there will always be a place to wash ‘bent’ money & bookmakers will find a way to do it(NAP)
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Cashless will happen but I wouldn’t panic…we will all be pushing up a daisy…or be scattered around somewhere in a fav spot we liked…
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