JackGraham
Train Attendant
- Joined
- Jun 24, 2008
- Messages
- 16
I've booked tickets or made inquiries in several stations from San Diego to Santa Barbara for Surfliner trips, and was rather surprised at the vast difference in attitudes of the ticket agents. By far the surliest were in Los Angeles. I buy a ticket every week, and those are some of the surliest people I've ever seen! One, maybe two people in line, and the agents act as if I am interrupting their soap operas when I come to the window. And I've done this enough to know how to specify a ticket request efficiently.
Oceanside has a couple of agents that were real jerks for several weeks until apparently they started recognizing me. Now the black dude in the beret will at least tolerate me long enough to give me a ticket and is occasionally pleasant if I am 100% efficient in my transaction. Sheesh dude, it's not that stressful a place!
The older ladies there seem to be friendly enough, especially after one of them and I ended up in a rather darkly humorous conversation about some dope that jumped in front of the train making me late for a vacation ride. Those agents have less patience for that nonsense than I do apparently.
In contrast, the Old Town and San Diego ticket agents were so nice, as was the Santa Barbara agent.
Anyone else have drastically varying agent experiences?
Oceanside has a couple of agents that were real jerks for several weeks until apparently they started recognizing me. Now the black dude in the beret will at least tolerate me long enough to give me a ticket and is occasionally pleasant if I am 100% efficient in my transaction. Sheesh dude, it's not that stressful a place!
The older ladies there seem to be friendly enough, especially after one of them and I ended up in a rather darkly humorous conversation about some dope that jumped in front of the train making me late for a vacation ride. Those agents have less patience for that nonsense than I do apparently.
In contrast, the Old Town and San Diego ticket agents were so nice, as was the Santa Barbara agent.
Anyone else have drastically varying agent experiences?