Supercod - Personal Blog

This morning I make my way to get the train, short walk probably 1/4 of a mile away from my house. Was reading some mail from the accountants as I walked to catch the train, normal cheery mail, time to pay the government thousands of pounds in tax, yeah it’s coming to the end of July and the Government wants’ it’s protection money.

Anyway I arrive at the station and as I go down the stairs towards the ticket office I check my pocket for my wallet, crap left my wallet in the house no worries always have bunch of pound coins kicking about, crap £1.70 in my pocket. Oh joy have to walk back home, miss this train and come back again. As I about turn to head off, I hear Ian the ticket guy shout “Clarke, did you forget your money” I am like “yeap”, he shouts back “no bother, I will get your tickets for you, can pay me back next time” very decent of Ian as he was issuing my tickets he was like do you want to borrow a score (£20 to you people who don’t understand money slang) I said thanks but I can borrow some money off someone in the office.

Now this got me thinking, how many other places in the UK (keep in mind I live in Glasgow so not a small town) can you go to a train station having forgot your money and the ticket guy offers to pay it for you? Not many I bet, heck I doubt most people even know the name of the person issuing the tickets. How do I know his name, well basically he has been at the station about year and half he issues my ticket without me having to say where I am going, normally conversation is “how you doing”, “not bad”, “here is your ticket Clarke”, “cheers Ian” LOL yes in-depth stuff but fact he could be bothered to remember my ticket was enough for him to get a small Christmas Present last year, 2 bottles of wine in a box… Now you may be thinking hang on you gave the ticket guy a Christmas Present, that’s a bit random, well yeah it maybe accept this is someone I see and speak to every day and as he has always been nice pleasant guy I though, he deserved something.. And what do you know 6 months later I forget my train fare and he is letting me pay him back later, they do say what goes around comes around but think it’s normally if you do a bad thing, but I guess it works for good things also LOL

Thought I would blog about it as it’s good to know decent people are kicking about, and if you get train, bus or whatever maybe you will take the time to speak to the people you meet every day.