Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-01-16
"G ROUTG."
How Two Women Annoyed Ticket AGENT
and Missed the Train

"AN -tht>SSa tiis Iaih
A writer in the Boston Transcript. him
self tlcket-Seler, reports scene which
he witnessed not long ago while seated in
4 large railway station:
The ii 40 train was about due to leave
when two women hurried up to the win
dow, and the taller of them call
ed 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 tallest woman of the two stopped
her search of her purse, and looked up in
amaZement.
Sixty centS!'
Yes m and You'll have to hurry up
about it lif you want to catch this next
train.
y didn't think the price was 50 much
as that "
The tickets are thirty cents each, mad
am"
"Oh, of course!" she replied with a
long sigh of relief; but / only want
one.
Excuse me, said the agent, Il thought
you asked for two"
Yes, but the other lady will pay for
hers"
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
enc of them.
BY the time the transaction was COM
pleted, it was past II 40, but the train had
not gone. The two women left the win
dow, but immediately came back again,
out of breath.
Are these excursion tickets?" they
cried
No"
On, but we wanted excursion tick
cts"
Then you must give me fifteen cents
more, each of you, and 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 gone!' franticalIy ex-
claimed the short woman.
when is the next train for C--?"
asked her companion.
AT 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 glarjng at the ticket
seller.
Il beg your pardon ! gave you what
you asked for.
"Of course we wanted to come back
again"
But didn't know it"
You didn't?'
No"
Did yon suppose we wanted to I've
there forever?' asked the short woman
sharply.
1T is hardly my place to suppose at all.
madam; | must give people what they ask
for
Il 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
founced away.
Madam, cried the agent after the
tall woman, you've left your change
here.
And so she had In her excitement she
had left four dollars and eIghty-fve cents
upon the window shelf, to be pocketed by
the first passer.
She did not even thank the man for call
ing her back.
A few minutes later the writer of the
sketch passed near the two women in the
waiting-room.
What grouty fellow that ticket agent
was!' he heard the tall one say.
Yes" answered the other, ticket
agents are all alike. | never could under
stand why they are always so disagree
able. -
1t was no wonder they were provoked;
but it does seem little strange, as the
teller of the story remarks, that the
ticket-seIler-t the only one of the three
who had not made mistake, and VIII
had not lost his temper, and the only
one who had been civil - should in the
end have been called grouty and disagree
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