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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Happens in public transport all the time.
This happens with older people. They're probably 20 minutes early ... after which the driver frantically tries to make up 5 minutes.
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Quite the reverse here, most old people wait with their (gold Opal) card in their hands or on a lariat around their necks, maybe because it's also customary for younger people to stand aside to allow older people to get on the bus first. Our buses rarely arrive early (if they get ahead of schedule they stop for a while), but they are often 5-10 minutes late.
It's the millennials who fiddle with their phones whilst waiting who cause the delays. When the bus arrives they suddenly realise their (black Opal) card is in their backpack; so that must be shrugged off their backs, and various compartments unzipped and searched, then when they finally find it, they discover they forgot to top it up. So they have to buy a ticket from the driver.
More searching, for money this time, all they can find are a collection 5 and 10 cent coins tucked into corners of various pockets and gussets. Meantime some silly old bastard like me calls out, "Whaddya doing, making a takeover offer for the goddamn bus company.".
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