In those glorious Stalinist days of mid-1980s Sheffield, did anyone else try to extend the "anywhere in sheff for tuppence" bus fare as a kid?
The 24 to Totley was often conducted by a middle-aged beast of a woman with long blond platted hair - we called her Rapunzel. I think the child fare cut-off was 14 years old but at 16 & 17 we gave it a high pitch "two, please!" and usually got away with it exept when Rapunzel was on duty.
She stood for no nonsense!
Plain Talker
01-05-2004, 09:39
Originally posted by wheaty
In those glorious Stalinist days of mid-1980s Sheffield, did anyone else try to extend the "anywhere in sheff for tuppence" bus fare as a kid?
The 24 to Totley was often conducted by a middle-aged beast of a woman with long blond platted hair - we called her Rapunzel. I think the child fare cut-off was 14 years old but at 16 & 17 we gave it a high pitch "two, please!" and usually got away with it exept when Rapunzel was on duty.
She stood for no nonsense!
I occasionally used to try to get away with a child fare until I was almost 20! (yes, I know! shame on me! I plead my desperate lack of the folding stuff at that time as mitigating circumstances, Your Honour...)
I was blessed (If you want to look at it that way!) with a genetic condition which made me much shorter than I should have been (although I am not a dwarf) this made me look considerably younger than my real age, so at 20 I looked perhaps 14/ 15... at thirty i looked twenty/ early 20's...
(oh, to have those days back again, now that i have hit the big 4-0...)
so it wasn't that difficult to pull that trick off.
(edited to add:- oh, and Wheaty, the cut off for the kid's fare was its 16th birthday, from at least 1973 approx, you paid for a kid once it reached it's fifth birthday)
PT