Phoenixpower -> RE: I hate it when........ (1/14/2010 8:53:52 AM)
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ORIGINAL: stella41b I hate it when coin operated machines get stroppy. I'm in the Underground today trying to get home and I'm topping up my 'Oyster' (electronic travel card system) when the machine refuses to accept my last pound coin. So does the next machine. I go and change my pound coin (I only have one) for two fifty pence pieces. The machine accepts one but not the other. The other machine accepts neither. I go and change the two 50p coins for five 20p coins and come back to the machine to see a couple calmly inserting three pound coins into the machine. So I try again and the machine accepts everything - except the final 20p coin. By chance I find another pound coin, insert that, and get four 20p coins back as change. Oh dear Stella... I feel for you...though I am not too familiar with that as I pay them by card to 95% I have had recently many struggles where those touch screen machines don't want to acknowledge the choice of my destination... so, for example, if I would choose manchester...then the light would not turn pink on there...it would go pink on the destination before and afterwards of course but not where I want it to turn pink...or sometimes it does the same with the letters...typing in as a 2nd or 3rd letter a "H" did proof to be impossible...so I had quite a few encounters where I had to change the machine several times until I finally got the ticket I wanted in the first place *sigh*
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