Do you ever get your Oyster Card out to enter the front door of our house?

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I do.

― ZOT! (davidcorp), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

I've never been to your house

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

i'm sorry you live on a bus dude.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

actually wait that would be amazing.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

'our' house.

That's fucked it.

― ZOT! (davidcorp), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

It happens at all 'entry' points. Do with that as you will.

― ZOT! (davidcorp), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

No, but I have been known to take out my keys when approaching a subway turnstile. Sheesh.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps were we to perform those actions simultaneously, a singularity might occur.

― ZOT! (davidcorp), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I have thanked cash/ticket machines on numerous occaisions, especially when I used to work in retail.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I don't own an oyster card so this has never been a problem for me.

However, I frequently try to get out of the tube with my debit card. D'oh!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

i like how oysters were originally touted as the cheaper option for london transport, but now you cant even get the more expensive option, so oysters arent cheaper than anything. ok, so theyre still a tiny bit cheaper but they still raised al the prices anyway.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

I have thanked cash/ticket machines on numerous occaisions

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"Thank you door!"

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

My travelcard wasn't going through the machine, and some dude shouted "get an Oyster card!", when my card went through the second time, I turned around to see the dude struggling to get through with his OC. Perfect.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

"get an Oyster card" = the new "get a haircut, hippy"

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

I have tried to get cash out with my Oyster card. I have tried to get into the ICA with an Islington Library Card. I have tried to get into the tube by pressing my switch card to the reader. And I once passed a tampon to someone who asked for a light.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

The problem with having an oyster card is that if, like I do, you have a pay-as-you-go and the money runs out, you have no idea if you've enough spare change to get on the bus cos you don't know how much it costs. Or even if the bus is one that takes real money.

And yes, I've tried to get through my front door with an oyster. Even though I don't even use it daily.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Can I recommend you set up the auto-top-up service on your card - works a treat. The only annoyance I had with it was that when you got below £5 the top-up would only kick in if you went to a tube statino but they're about to change something so that it'll now happen on buses too.

― Kaliova (Kaliova), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so glad I'm not the only person who does this.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 29 June 2006 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

I keep dialling 9 when I make a call from my home phone.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 29 June 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what an Oyster Card is, but I've tried to use my college ID as a housekey or a library card a few times.

― 31g (31g), Thursday, 29 June 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

What Mädchen said :(
I've also answered my house phone with 'Good afternoon, [workplace]'

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 29 June 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

yes, i have tried to get through turnstiles with my housekey, into the house with my oyster, into the house with my office key. all this despite having a very sensible moving-things-around-in-pockets system so after i've used one thing and i know what i'm going to need next i shift the next thing to the top of the pile/outside of the pocket/etc.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 29 June 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

I've used my credit card to enter other people's houses

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 29 June 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

I've used my credit card to successfully enter my OWN house :(

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

i don't have an oyster card. what is it, free busses or something?

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

"I've also answered my house phone with 'Good afternoon, [workplace]' "

And I've answered the work phone with a cheery "Hiya!" on more than one occassion.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

Once I accidentally answered my home phone by scowling, barking out "HAND!!" and spitting the stub of my cigar into the trash and I liked it so much I've done it ever since.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

London Oyster card usage was so burned into my routine that even though I've been back in Toronto for almost a year, I still occasionally find myself pulling out my wallet to touch it on a non-existent reader when I enter or leave our subway...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 29 June 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

good boy.

i've attempted to get into my house using the little key fob thing i need to get into my office.

i've done the phone thing at home as well...

also i totally want to ring tracey hand up now...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

talk to the...

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

I've done the phone thing at home too. When calling the cat in for its supper, I've also been known to stand in the back garden and yell the company name instead of the cat's name.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

as long as you don't start doing it the other way round. "Hello Tiddles? What? Oh...sorry boss".

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

I did this last night. The Oyster/house thing, not calling the boss Tiddles.

― Hello Sunshine, Thursday, 31 May 2007 08:44 (eighteen years ago)

I often get my oyster card out when I get to my office in the morning. Not so much going home though.

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 31 May 2007 08:50 (eighteen years ago)

i get my oyster out when i try to leave non-london train stations, it's stupid.

― ken c, Thursday, 31 May 2007 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

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