My job involves me in some unusual tasks, so here is the story of how I ended up rooting around in the bins in Eastleigh Bus Station.
Sharon came in on the C1 arriving at 0955 and handed over to Taz for the 1000 C3. Shortly afterwards she texted me. I speed-read the text and gathered that she had left a bag containing £20 in the cab of the bus she handed over. Please could I contact Taz and see if it was there, and let her know.
So I went down to meet Taz while he was loading for the 1100 C3 and explained what had happened. He insisted that there was nothing in the cab, we both had a good look and sure enough, nothing apart from Taz's own possessions. He did however draw my attention to an empty coffee cup on the dashboard and said - with a small amount of sarcasm and a large amount of humour he said, "she didn't leave me her money but she did leave me her rubbish - charming!!!"
So I left the bus and casually tossed the cup into one of the several bins in the bus station.
Anyway, I replied to Sharon that there was no bag on the bus, very sorry but I had no idea where her bag had gone. And then I set off on my next mission to carry out a shopping errand in the Swan Centre, a 5 minute walk away at the other end of Eastleigh Town Centre.
No sooner had I set foot in the Swan Centre than I received a further text from Sharon. I had misread the original - the £20 was not in a bag, it was in a cup!!!!!
I made it back to the bus station in slightly less time than I had taken going the other way! The only slight problem being that I had no idea into which bin I had discarded the cup, so I had no choice but to ferret through all of them - attracting the inevitable strange looks until - rejoice! I finally found the correct cup. The £20 was saved and has now been returned to Sharon, much to her relief but even more so to mine!
About Me
- Phil Stockley
- Welcome to my blog! On these pages you will find a series of posts dating from 2010 to 2018, spanning a period of my career in which I ran my own bus company in Southampton (Velvet), then moved on to Wellglade Group to run TM Travel before moving into the Group Development Director role; then finally ending up at HCT Group - latterly as Commercial Director. These days I'm working for FirstBus as part of their franchise bidding team, and time and circumstances mean it's no longer possible to keep this blog up to date. But I'm happy to leave my musings in place for anyone interested to read. Earlier posts tend to concern themselves with the day to day minutiae of running a small bus company in Hampshire; in later posts I talk about wider industry issues. I hope you will find something of interest and, who knows, maybe in the future circumstances will allow me to get out the virtual pen and start writing again!
7 comments:
It must be a woman thing - don't know any men who keep their cash in an empty coffee cup ??
Unrelated to the post but some of your buses seem to be "wearing" rather a lot of diesel under/ around the filler caps at the moment. I noticed one of the solos about 7:30 this morning turning out of Hiltingbury Road in Chandlers Ford and it had a huge thick black strip under the filler cap. I saw the other solo a few hours later and it had the same although less of it.
I reckon you could save about 5% on your fuel bill if they were filled more carefully!
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Could I suggest Mr Stockley that if you're not going to regularly post anything that you delete it altogether?
All you're attracting is comments from 'spammers'.
Myself excluded of course :-)
But really, if you're heart is not in this sort of thing, don't start it off in the first place eh?
I have to agree with Anonymous. Facebook, Twitter and the Blog have all dried up recently.
You could post about the white Spectra that you've got driving around at the moment?
Its good to hear that you are lucky in this situation, your perseverance paid you with a reward.
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