It's like a cattle truck
It’s like being on a cattle truck, so bad is the service.
Yes, it’s wonderful having a Senior Citizen’s Pass.
All rather reminiscent of the joke my late father used to tell:-
Customer: “A pound of tomatoes, please.”
Greengrocer: “Certainly, madam. That’ll be thruppence, please.”
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Hide AdC: “Thruppence? The greengrocer down the road is selling them at tuppence a pound!”
G: “Well, I suggest that you go and buy your tomatoes from him.”
C: “He hasn’t got any.”
G: “Fine. When I haven’t got any, I’ll be selling them at tuppence a pound as well.”
Ruth Grimsley
S10