New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-11-12
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Ticket Seller Who Was Strangely DisobIigins
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IlcKeG Seller VINO Was Strangely Dts0bliging
and Cross.
"a writer in the Boston Transcript.
himself a ticket-seller, reports a scene
which he witnessed not long ago while
seated in the Office of a large railway
station. The 1:40 train was about ne
to leave when two women hurried up
to the window, and the taller Of them
called for two tickets to G The
man at the window took them out of
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!n
.'7es'm, and you'll have to hurry il
you want to catch this next train.''
Il didn't think the price was SO
much as that
'Ihe tickets are thirty cents each"
ooh, OF courser' she said, with a
sigh of relief; ''but only want one"
Excuse me- said the agent, ]
thought you asked for two.''
Eyes, but the other lady will pay
for hers. y
The 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 one of them.
completed, it was past 11:4O, but the
train had not gone. The two women
left the window, but Immediately
came back again, out of breath.
'.Are these excursion tickets?''
they cried.
''No."
'Oh, but we wanted excursion
tickets''
"Then give fifteen cents more, each
of you, and I will change your
tickets"
One Of the women, in her hurry,
dropped her purse and spent several
seconds in picking up the scattered
change. Before she had found her
fifteen cents the train drew out of the
station.
The train has goner' Frantically
exclaimed the short woman.
When is the next train for p'
asked her companion
cat 1850"
"Oh! OH" cried the short woman.
''Now, you see, we've got to wait
here an hour and ten minutes just be-
cause you didn't give us the right
tickets" said the tall woman, glaring
at the ticket seller.
Il beg your pardon, gave yon
what you called for"
''Of course we wanted to come
back.''
''But didn't know it.
'.Did you suppose we wanted to
live there forever?n asked the short
woman.
1T is hardly my place to suppose
at all, madam; [ must give people
what they ask for
II shouldn't mind your stupidity if
we didn't have to wait here more than
an hour on account of it.
With this they turned their backs
and flounced away.
Madam" cried the agent after the
tall woman, you've left your
change
And SO she had. In her eycitement
she had left four dollars and eighty
five cents upon the window-shelf, to
be pocketed by the first passer. She
did not even thank the man for calling
her back
"A few minutes later the writer OF
the sketch passed near the two women
in the waiting-room.
''What q grouty fellow that ticket
agent vast he heard the tall one say.
Yes answered the other, ticket
agents are all alike. ] never could
understand why they are always SO
disagreeable
1t was no wonder they were pro-
volSed; but it does seem little strange,
as the teller OF the story remarks,
'.that the ticket-seller-the only one
of the three who had not made a mis-
take, and who had not lost his temper,
and the only one who had been civil
should in the end have been called
grouty and disagreeable."
The Excuse Didn't Work
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