there's this woman who gets on at the same stop every day, on the 456 bus route from melton to sunshine. every day she offers the bus driver a $50 note, and with a practised expression of surprise and dismay, informs him that she "didn't know". of course she did, and they're all starting to break through their worked-here-too-long fug and are getting a tad annoyed at her. however, one of them in particular has the ticket (ha): he actually purposely brings the change for a $50 with him in the morning, and lordy, it pours a gout of sunshine on my inner sadist to see THAT expression. but then, morning public transport is massage for the inner sadist, innit.
Er, one presumes she's buying a daily ticket, not a weekly or other such expensive bit of cardboard?
...since one point of my original post is that it costs them no more to give change on a $50 when it's a weekly full fare ticket than it does for them to give change on a tenner...?
I wouldn't offer anyone a $50 for an item that's less than $10 unless it was the only legal tender I had and I didn't expect it to inconvenience them overly much.
I mean, technically, it IS legal tender, so they can't refuse it, TECHNICALLY I could hand them a $100 note for a 2 buck ticket and while I would personally not blame them for telling me to get bent I could quite legally do so and probably kick up a stink in court and get compensation monies if they didn't let me ride the bus with my over-sized bill.
FYI I bought the two hour ticket with change, I just didn't particularily feel compelled to carry about $42.80 in gold coins to buy my PT ticket that morning, nor did I know that a $50 note would be treated like a leper.
yes, a daily ticket. yes, i should have pointed that out.
i guess the inherent problem with entering into the land of the weekly/monthly/etc. ticket for a bus driver is that while, as you pointed out, he's likely to only end up issuing roughly the same amount of change as what he might normally have to for a daily, the LIKELIHOOD of him having to enter into the realm of passing larger notes back and forth increases quite a bit. it's higher stakes, isn't it.
i've given $50 notes for things. i always make sure to apologise if i have to, and if they simply can't give me the adequate change of course i understand. i guess we usually only worry about giving the wrong change or large notes to bus drivers due to the fact that we usually know them for being pretty hostile. it's generally true too as far as my experience goes, with a few notable exceptions.
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...since one point of my original post is that it costs them no more to give change on a $50 when it's a weekly full fare ticket than it does for them to give change on a tenner...?
I wouldn't offer anyone a $50 for an item that's less than $10 unless it was the only legal tender I had and I didn't expect it to inconvenience them overly much.
I mean, technically, it IS legal tender, so they can't refuse it, TECHNICALLY I could hand them a $100 note for a 2 buck ticket and while I would personally not blame them for telling me to get bent I could quite legally do so and probably kick up a stink in court and get compensation monies if they didn't let me ride the bus with my over-sized bill.
FYI I bought the two hour ticket with change, I just didn't particularily feel compelled to carry about $42.80 in gold coins to buy my PT ticket that morning, nor did I know that a $50 note would be treated like a leper.
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i guess the inherent problem with entering into the land of the weekly/monthly/etc. ticket for a bus driver is that while, as you pointed out, he's likely to only end up issuing roughly the same amount of change as what he might normally have to for a daily, the LIKELIHOOD of him having to enter into the realm of passing larger notes back and forth increases quite a bit. it's higher stakes, isn't it.
i've given $50 notes for things. i always make sure to apologise if i have to, and if they simply can't give me the adequate change of course i understand. i guess we usually only worry about giving the wrong change or large notes to bus drivers due to the fact that we usually know them for being pretty hostile. it's generally true too as far as my experience goes, with a few notable exceptions.
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