Tickets Please!
Or being on the Paris Metro ‘Billets s’il vous plaît’.
No problem. Well no problem if I can find it amongst the myriad of pockets I have. I find plenty of un-validated ‘Carnet’ tickets I purchased earlier, and used tickets from yesterday and before, but do you think I could find the ticket I validated to get into the Metro system 15 minutes earlier? Damn it. I showed yesterday’s ticket to prove I was not a fare evader. I offered a new ticket but the terse inspector was not interested. I said I could hardly jump the barrier. She said ‘People do’. I explained that I was a tourist and didn’t know you had to keep the ticket even though I usually do.
That little misplacement cost me €50.00 in cash. I said ‘I don’t want a receipt’. She said ‘You do as you may get fined again without it’.
Merci beaucoup. Bonne journée.
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