My son has just paid for bus ticket with a twenty pound note...

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The driver issued a ticket and stated he didn't have enough change - he told my son that he (my son) would have to go to the depot for his change.

All my son has is the issued ticked - it doesn't state how he paid? The depot won't refund him.

Surely it's the drivers responsibility to have change in the first instance.

What would you do?

He is still on the bus as I type...

My son has used the Arriva APP on other occasions, however, my debit card was stolen (I reported on Friday) and wasn't sure if the transaction would go through? I didn't want him having the embarrassment of this.

Sorry about your debit card OP, hope that's all sorted now.

I was so happy when I discovered bus company apps (don't drive). Whenever I'm travelling out of London I just check whether my destination area has one & then I'm normally sorted. So much easier than worrying about fare amounts & what kind of change I'll need.

finding it a bit mean of people to expect someone - possibly a minor - to act dismissively if someone doesn't know they should take correct money on a bus. I'm sure there's plenty of those people that don't know everything either!
And they do sometimes have enough change. Last week I got on the bus, paid with a £20 (my car had broken down) and it was fine. I'm guessing this has been sorted one way or another.
If the lad was young how was he supposed to know what to do without the life experience behind him?
Personally I'd have asked the driver to write on the receipt and taken his name and any other details, as he took my money, but I'm 48 and learnt the hard way not to trust people always. I hope he got his change.

Stagecoach does change vouchers as a receipt for if they can't give you change - the driver should be able to give OP's DS something to confirm it.

I thought children didn't pay for travel on buses etc anyway? its been a long time since i caught a bus so maybe times have changed!

Children to pay, it's crippling for many families. Then you get the boomers who get it for free into town as they don't want to risk the Merc getting scratched

@FloControl i left Leeds 20 years ago, they didn't give change then.

I think children being free on buses is the exception rather than the rule. I know that's the case in London, but in West Yorkshire it's half the adult fare for over 5s with only under 5s being free.

Another example of how all bus companies operate differently, adding what children are charged to whether or not cash is accepted and whether or not it is acceptable to pay with notes of varying denomination and whether or not change will be forthcoming.

The rules must have changed Passive. Or you encountered a set of awkward-sod bus drivers !

I thought children didn't pay for travel on buses etc anyway?

80p per journey for children ages 5-15y (or school aged) in Sheffield, though there is a day pass available I think. Once aged 11y they are supposed to have a bus pass to enable them to travel for child rate.

Oh boo hoo, lets all feel sorry for boomers with their free uni education, cheap housing to buy (or loads of social housing). Sick of boomers who think they deserve it all and who stick two fingers up at the young and the fact "you could buy if you gave up your iphone". Idiots.

Oh please boomers had high wage rises so many didn't even notice inflation.

The unemployment figures today aren't really that accurate as they've been cooking them for ages and zero hours people are not included just like people being sactioned.

If you want to play missery trump's the boomers had it far better than any generation before them or after them, it isn't even close.

Francis English students at Scottish Universities stil have to pay fees.

There were pits in 1981. Granted miners had no wage in the 1984/5 strike, but there were pits open into the 1990s at least.

In a way, the boomers have had it easy. Able to buy a family house on one wage, retirement from age 60, final salary pensions. Advantages not available to much younger people.

FrancisCrawford no one is saying they had it perfectly, but in the grand scheme of things and compared to the generations before and after them they did have it easy.

It's going to get a hell of a lot woorse for young people with brexit.

Wages in real terms are falling year on year, no jobs for life, no decent pension, no chance getting a house for many where they grew up, 60k uni debt and most jobs require a degree these days, both parents having to work, many face the prospect of never even retiring.

And these things affect older people too.

But to a much much lesser extent. Honestly this is futile as you will just list some anecdotal "evidence" or carry on saying free education still exists because a tiny amount of the UK population have access to it.

both parents have to work. That is not exclusive to recent times.

One set of grandparents would have been over 100 had they still been alive. That nana worked as did my papa. (Even after having children) But both had physical manual jobs. Nana in a factory or a clothing mill and papa in the shipyard. Both lived through world wars and rationing. Lived in a council house.
Other grandparents are still alive and in their 80's. Again both worked (despite having 7 children) own house .
Neither set have/had a merc either !

My parents are in their early 60's. Dad only worked when we were little. Mum couldn't as dad was a police officer which meant shifts and was hard going particularly in the 1980's. Riots and tragic events (Lockerbie, etc.) Once we were a bit bigger mum went back to work.

Even I remember the Thatcher years, we probably had it worse here in Scotland as we were used by her as 'Guinea pigs' I remember the poll tax and how it left many people in debt, my neighbour had to sell her house as the payments were so high.

Times have been hard for various people throughout the years. Both the older generation and the current generation.

francis indeed, funded by the taxpayers in the rest of the UK

francis indeed, funded by the taxpayers in the rest of the UK

Cream let me fix that for you:

francis indeed, funded by a tiny portion of the revenue from Scotland's oil that has flowed into Westminster's coffers, subsidising taxpayers in the rest of the UK for at least 40 years