The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-11-27
THE TICKET AGENT.
He Has TIonty Of Csuss 70 1locOu
'@3routy" aad Disagreeable.

Us Has rIsnty Or Csass 70 Hseone
'ssrouty'' asd DisaGreeabIe.
A writer in tho Boston Transcript,
himself ticket-seller. reports scene
which he witnessed not long ago while
seated in the ofice Of . large railway
station The 1l:4O train WAS about due
10 leave when two women hurried up to
the window, and the taller Of them
called for two tickets to C. The
man at the window took them from the
case, and as usual called out the price
sixty cents.
The tall woman stopped her search
OF her purse. and looked up in amaze
ment.
''Sixty cents!"
.Yes'm. and you'll have to hurry II
you want to catch this next train"
II didn't think the price was 20 much
as that"
The tickets are thirty cents each"
''Oh. OF course!" she said. with sigh
OF relief; but only want one"
Excuse me-" said the agent II
thought you asked for two"
Yes but the other lady will pay for
hers"
Tho agent said nothing, though he
might have said that he could hardly
have been expected to know that the
customer who called for two tickets was
to pay for only ono Of them.
BY the time the trans action Was COM
pieted 1t was past 11:4O, but the train
had not gone. The two women left the
window. but imme iiately cAmo back
again. out Of breath.
.Are these excursion ticksts7' they
cried.
mo"
.'Oh. bat wo wanted exc, rsion tick.
cts"
Then give mo fifteen cents more,
each Of you, and | will change your
tickets"
One OF tho women. in her hurry,
dropped her purse and spent several
seconds in picking up the scattered
| change. Before she had found her fif.
teen cents the train drew out OF the sta.
tion.
Tho train has gomez frantically ex.
claimed the short woman.
when 10 the next train for C-?'
asked her com panion."
AT 1850"
.'Oh! OH" cried the short woman.
Now, you see. we'vo got to wait here
IN hour and ten minutes just because
you didn't give US the right tickets.
said the tall woman. glarin9 at thu
ticket-seller.
Il beg your pardon. gave you wha
you asked for"
''Of course We wanted TO come back.
but didn't know It"
Ibid you suppose we wanted to livt
there forever?" asked the short woman
1T Is hardly my place to suppose .
all. madam; must give people wha
they ask for"
Il shouldn't mind your stupidity Il
we didn't have to wait here more thar
IN hour on account Of It"
With this they turned their backs and
flounced away.
Madam cried tho agent after tn
tall woman, you've left your change.
And SO she had. In her excitemen
she had left four dollars and eighty-fiv,
cents upon the window-sheli. to b,
pocketed by the first passer. She die
not even thank the man for calling he
back.
A few minutes later the writer Of tn,
sketch passed near the two women il
the waiting-room.
"What . grouty fellow that ticke
agent was!" he heard the tall one say.
Yes" answered the other. .'ticke
agents are all alike. never could IN
derstand why they are always SO dis
agreeable"
1t was no wonder they were provoked
but it docs seem little strange. rs tn,
teller Of tho story remarks. that tn
ticket-seller-the only one Of the thre
who had not made . mistake, and VIII
had not lost his temper. and the onl
one who had been civil-should in tn
end have been called grouty and dis
agreeable"