They’re out to get me those nasty London Underground people, they must have joined forces with the Thameslink Nazis of Cricklewood and are trying to hunt me down.
I owe them a tenner for a fine from an age ago. I have since stopped using my oyster card as I’m scared it will show up on their system when I try to top it up.
So I have been using god old fashioned paper travelcards. This has been sufficient and I have not been caught.
But yesterday I was aware of the net closing in on me, the London Underground must have been using all the powers at their disposal to find me and catch me for my ten pounds of their money.
For this morning, on the second day of this travelcards life, it didn’t work. It went through the machine and asked me to seek assistance, if it was for the tenner I’m afraid I’ll have to be seeking financial assistance.
The same card worked yesterday, maybe it was a fluke. I tried again. Nope, nothing. I was ushered through by an employee not realizing he’d let a wanted man through.
Again on the way home it didn’t work.
They are closing in, I can feel them.
Or maybe I just scratched or ripped the ticket.
Am I paranoid?