went to brum yesterday to pick up two 6' by 3' posters of the new chemical brothers album for free (this post isn't me bragging, i'm just stocked), whilst there i brought the lemon jelly tcket for �15 (saves �10 in handling fee and p+p). i then nip off to nostalgias comics (or nosties as it's affectunately known) a friend who i haven't seen in ages works there and i score a lift back but before that i nip into this little diddy record shop and buy star guitar on vinyl, and on cd the prodigy's one love, wind it up (rewound), everybody in the place (fairground) and JOSH WINK HIGHER STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS. i have been after that song for ages. and all the above cost �4.50.

i get the train back to TAMWORTH with my friend, whilst on there we start up this conversation with the people next to us about the delights of the chemical brothers and drugs (not coinsiding). from the station i get a lift back home. result. oh yer and i got a free train trip from burton to birmingham (headphones work wonders)

cool

Cool - so you scored some posters, a vinyl single, and a couple of free rides while you were at it!



I love it when it's a good day. It doesn't even have to be a spectacular day jammed pack with overwhelmingly spectacular events that leave you worn out and exhausted. Just a good day where everything falls in place is nice...

does anyone in this country pay for a train?? its all to easy to skip the fair

I am sure mcmarsh won't be too happy about that X-D

i didn't skip it. the ticket office was closed and the machine was broke so i would to have to pay on the train. he choose to ignore me

I always found it amazing - almost every time I've taken a train in the UK (including the last time when we went to Woking) I've never been asked for my ticket. It's like, hmmm - I could've ridden for free!



But it would be my dumb luck to board a train without having paid for a ticket, then get caught.

chemical_si posted:

i didn't skip it. the ticket office was closed and the machine was broke so i would to have to pay on the train. he choose to ignore me

Sounds just like a typical Virgin trains guard, too lazy to check tickets. Speaking of Virgin trains, I'm sat at work now and the 19:05 service to Edinburgh is running 62 mins late!! But then thats cos some arsehole drove his HGV into a low bridge near Rotherham but don't get me started on that one...

even when i'm in england i don't have to pay the full price god bless british rail

I'm on "rail probation" for tying to skip a fair, it was only between two stations (�1) i think i was targeted by the stupid train workers.



I hate them!

i skip fairs most of the time, its just too easy. i find the cost of rail travel discustingly expensive. even on those odd occasions when there is a guard on the train on ticket collector at the train station you can buy tickets of them with the 'ticket machine was out of order' story. never been fined yet.

i payed for my return from london to tamworth over new years and it cost me �30. they didn't check from tamworth to london or back to tamworth. that was anoying cause i could of saved �30. but i than went on a college trip to london. the coach back to burton would of taken about 4 hours. luckily i had my train ticket from new years still, which is valid for a month. so i got on the train, got ticket checked. back to tamworth in 1 hour 20 mins. result

Pringled posted:

I'm on "rail probation" for tying to skip a fair, it was only between two stations (�1) i think i was targeted by the stupid train workers.



I hate them!

Oh dear, what a fucking shame.

sneakerbeater Escribi�:

does anyone in this country pay for a train?? its all to easy to skip the fair

Its easy to blag it on trains i remeber running out of money at homelands a few years ago and manageing to blag a journey home. Yesterday i wasnt gonna bother paying the fair from bognor to pompey but i decided to as i could afford it, lucky i did pay cause there was a ticket man checking. It well worth getting a young persons rail card.