ttj - Tom Jones

Today is sunny, so it’s hot in people’s cars. Checkin, for the voyage Condor yesterday brought forward by two hours, was supposed to have closed 20 minutes ago, but there is a big vehicle queue for checkin, and I'm still in it. What’s the best way for everyone to deal with this? (a) switch engines off when stationary; get out of vehicle and wait; or (b) everyone run their engines, most of them diesel, including the motor home guys, so that they can breathe nice air-conditioned air thick with exhaust fumes In some ways it’s a typical tragedy-of-the-commons situation, but with immediate, and obvious consequences.  You can feel how unhealthy it is when you breathe it in.  And it has an obvious and easy solution. Humans, eh. Then I spotted two cyclists. In the same lane as the motor vehicles with all their engines running. I spoke to them, and found out they had come from Poole. Going to St Malo. Not stopping off to see Guernsey, just had to disembark to change boat. I said people...

My second breakfast on the Condor ferry from Poole to Guernsey this morning would have been around 7 GBP.  Then it was around 16 GBP.  I looked at the screen to see what was up.  The employee said something like "when you're ready", pretty aggressively, to apply pressure. I found the mistake, two fake sandwiches at 4.50 GBP each, resulting in an overcharging of 9 GBP, or around 129%.  I said there are things on there not on my tray.  Employee listed a load of breakfast items, aggressively.  I asked where are those sandwiches.  Employee realised their "mistake" and apologised and removed the items, and did not look up again for the rest of the transaction. Similarly for adding fake items as with short-changing: if a vendor makes a "mistake" that would favor them by +X, it is not good enough to rectify this to favoring neither party by zero.  The correct remedy would be to favor the other party by X, and the vendor by -X.   If the vendor t...