Keep yer hand on yer ha'penny in Paris

[MyUserName]

They were probably hoping against hope to find some way of keeping a six-fingered hick like you out of the UK.

I signed the petition but he got back in anway

[shaunbhoy]

So in fact they issued a passport on the day so you could get your booked train?

Not really, they issued an "Emergency Travel Document" that was considerably more expensive than an actual 10-year Passport, and was only any good for one journey. And they only did that under sufferance.
The amount of time it took I can't see why they could not just have issued a replacement 10-Year Passport. I would not have minded paying a bit over the odds for that. They obviously had access to all the information they would have required.
Does anyone have any idea just what their core function actually is? Other than providing a nice cushy job for underperforming former Public Schoolboys/Girls?
Aside from attending countless garden parties of course.
Maybe they have been infected by the sort of Brussels Gravy Train fever that afflicts the thousands of MEPs that infest the place!!

[Old Greg]

Not really, they issued an "Emergency Travel Document" that was considerably more expensive than an actual 10-year Passport, and was only any good for one journey. And they only did that under sufferance.
The amount of time it took I can't see why they could not just have issued a replacement 10-Year Passport. I would not have minded paying a bit over the odds for that. They obviously had access to all the information they would have required.
Does anyone have any idea just what their core function actually is? Other than providing a nice cushy job for underperforming former Public Schoolboys/Girls?
Aside from attending countless garden parties of course.
Maybe they have been infected by the sort of Brussels Gravy Train fever that afflicts the thousands of MEPs that infest the place!!

I would have made you beg like a little doggy and then sent you to Luxembourg.

[sasguru]

Not really, they issued an "Emergency Travel Document" that was considerably more expensive than an actual 10-year Passport, and was only any good for one journey. And they only did that under sufferance.
The amount of time it took I can't see why they could not just have issued a replacement 10-Year Passport. I would not have minded paying a bit over the odds for that. !

It's taught you a lesson hasn't it?
There must be a tax on stupidity, otherwise they'd be inundated with careless hicksville chavs.
Oh and they need a garden party fund, you know.

[Gibbon]

I was in Naples main train station the other year buying some tickets at a automated machine when a man came up to me and said in broken English that I must help him buy a ticket. My guard was instantly up and I put my hand over my card in the machine and told him to just press the Union Jack button. He repeated his demand and I just said 'No!, if you need help go the manned booths'. He repeated his demand again and I told him again 'No! now leave me alone' at the same time cancelling and retrieving my card and walking away. My wife then had a go at me for being rude and not helping! I explained that it was odd to need help with a ticket machine and that most people would go to a manned booth if help was needed. She thought I was paranoid until two mins later we saw him being taken away by the police.

[Old Greg]

It's taught you a lesson hasn't it?
There must be a tax on stupidity, otherwise they'd be inundated with careless hicksville chavs.
Oh and they need a garden party fund, you know.

And someone to have a good laugh about at aforementioned garden party.

[Old Greg]

I was in Naples main train station the other year buying some tickets at a automated machine when a man came up to me and said in broken English that I must help him buy a ticket. My guard was instantly up and I put my hand over my card in the machine and told him to just press the Union Jack button. He repeated his demand and I just said 'No!, if you need help go the manned booths'. He repeated his demand again and I told him again 'No! now leave me alone' at the same time cancelling and retrieving my card and walking away. My wife then had a go at me for being rude and not helping! I explained that it was odd to need help with a ticket machine and that most people would go to a manned booth if help was needed. She thought I was paranoid until two mins later we saw him being taken away by the police.

There was a time when a gentleman abroad would be happy to pay off his lady wife's paramour.

[shaunbhoy]

There must be a tax on stupidity, otherwise they'd be inundated with careless hicksville chavs.

You are just getting all cocky because it is your wife that takes care of the admin, whilst you slaver and drool at the sights and sounds like a slack-jawed banjo-player.
God help you if you ever get separated from her whilst abroad. Although I expect that your propensity for dressing like a Big Issue salesmen provides you with a certain veneer of protection. That and the all-pervading stench of rotting cabbage!

[shaunbhoy]

I would have made you beg like a little doggy and then sent you to Luxembourg.

That would have required an air of authority that you simply do not possess though OG.

[MyUserName]

You are just getting all cocky because it is your wife that takes care of the admin, whilst you slaver and drool at the sights and sounds of a slack-jawed banjo-player.
God help you if you ever get separated from her whilst abroad. Although I expect that your propensity for dressing like a Big Issue salesmen provides you with a certain veneer of protection. That and the all-pervading stench of rotting cabbage!

FTFY