Last week was very quiet and the customers were disappointingly ordinary – aside from the man who got on the train with two shopping trolleys full of used bricks. (Trains are so useful when you don\u2019t have a car) A teacher trailing a class of 40 or so students arrived during my barrier shift at the Junction.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve come down from the country for a tour of State Parliament and our bus has broken down,\u201d he explained waving behind him. Sure enough there was a bus up the road with two men peering into it\u2019s innards.
\nBeing too humble a functionary to make any decision in this case I referred to the Station Master, who (most graciously) allowed them to finish their journey on the train without tickets. Thus did Metro facilitate these children\u2019s political education and no doubt make the world safer for democracy (loud huzzahs all round)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last week was very quiet and the customers were disappointingly ordinary – aside from the man who got on the train with two shopping trolleys full of used bricks. (Trains are so useful when you don\u2019t have a car) A teacher trailing a class of 40 or so students arrived during my barrier shift at …<\/p>\n