It's Saturday afternoon, and service A has fallen apart because of cricket traffic around the Rose Bowl.
So I leap in V12 (spare bus) and go hunting for passengers. First trip round I pick up a load at West End Post Office at around 1635, mostly for Parkway station but a few going into Eastleigh.
I head out for a second trip, get back to West End Post Office at 1715 and find a few more people waiting (I know at least one other bus has gone through in the meantime).
"Thank goodness you're here", announces a lady passenger in haughty tone, "we've been waiting an hour and a half and no buses have come!"
"I'm so sorry," I reply sweetly, "I must have missed you when I was here forty minutes ago".
Haughty lady issues a loud "hmmmmph" and flounces off down the bus.
Lady behind her, part of the same party, sotto voce to me: "Actually, we all went to the pub!"
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