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vilms5000
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… poor Tube etiquette.
Went to Oxford Street today. As I’m going through the gate at the Tube station, my Oyster didn’t register so the gate remained closed.
The woman behind me was so close and so impatient that she tapped her Oyster the millisecond I lifted mine off the reader.
So I went through the gate on her tap - I was trapped in the turnstile with only forwards as an option because she was about 10mm away from me.
She was livid, but not much I could do, and part of me thinks it serves her well for being so impatient. There’s a lesson, perhaps?
For reasons I won’t go into, I’m pleased to say this didn’t leave me out of pocket with an incomplete journey.