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Train Companies Sort It Out!

I wonder how many times this has happened to the humble commuter, who only wants a bit of satisfaction at the end of a long and tiring day spent being slave-driven: he or she steps off the train in a bad mood after fighting through crowds of people to get to the train, then has nowhere to sit on the train when he or she gets on it, then, when he or she alights it at the other end, he or she goes straight to the chocolate vending machine and the following happens in this order
a) he or she puts money in to buy a Wispa and the money first refuses to go in, then it comes out the other end too fast and
b) the money ends up rolling away in to a nearby very cunningly located gap in the pavement never to be seen again, forcing the commuter to look foolish trying to retrieve it and then give up and put more money in the machine and
c) he or she finally chooses an item and then it falls down, eventually, but only after shaking the machine violently, and when he or she goes to get it out of the tray in the bottom he or she almost breaks his or her wrist trying to get it out because the flappy thing that guards the tray weighs as much as a small car and is hell bent on causing you actual damage!
Honestly, it’s just not unacceptable, what with the extortionate prices we are already paying to use the trains! Who do the train providers think we are? And, more to the point, how many thousands of pounds has been lost WORLDWIDE as a direct result of this “accidental” gap in the pavement which just so happens to be here and nowhere else? How many pieces of oak furniture could have been bought with that money!? Sort it out train companies: this is not cool!