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Also, because in order to stamp my ticket I use my credit/debit card, I have a complete history of daily payments to Tbilisi's public transport, one or more per day, for each ride I use them. | Also, because in order to stamp my ticket I use my credit/debit card, I have a complete history of daily payments to Tbilisi's public transport, one or more per day, for each ride I use them. | ||
Now, and that never happened before to me, never, I was crossing the freeway between Tbilisi and Digomi above such Mashurtka n. 534, when, at a bus stop therein, 2 bus inspectors entered, and, for the first time I ever experienced that, they checked the passengers tickets during their travel, before they went out and they had the opportunity to stamp their tickets (i.e., in modern times, to gently swipe the card over the detector). | Now, and that never happened before to me, never, I was crossing the freeway between Tbilisi and Digomi above such Mashurtka n. 534, when, at a bus stop therein, 2 bus inspectors entered, and, for the first time I ever experienced that, they checked the passengers tickets during their travel, before they went out and they had the opportunity to stamp their tickets (i.e., in modern times, to gently swipe the card over the detector). | ||
Now, my Georgian language is limited, and constrained to the orders in restaurants or pizzerias, and my spoken English is far worst than my written English, so I wasn't really able to support and advocate myself. I repeated something that a man besides me told, in Georgian (I imagined he was saying what I was thinking, that is, for what the hell you are checking tickets during the travel, while some or all the passengers hadn't yet the opportunity to stamp their tickets, "I will do it later", or "I assumed to do it later") and I expressed, in a unconvincing way, the same concept in English. | Now, my Georgian language is limited, and constrained, to the orders in restaurants or pizzerias, and my spoken English is far worst than my written English, so I wasn't really able to support and advocate myself. I repeated something that a man besides me told, in Georgian (I imagined he was saying what I was thinking, that is, for what the hell you are checking tickets during the travel, while some or all the passengers hadn't yet the opportunity to stamp their tickets, "I will do it later", or "I assumed to do it later") and I expressed, in a unconvincing way, the same concept in English. | ||
The too diligent bus inspectors possibly understood, a little, or possibly not, and invited me to went out. I actually already gave to her my card, and I followed her, with the aim to explain better my position. I think we were both speaking a language (English), while her colleague did not speak it at all, in which we were so little comfortable in using it, so it was really painful to try to establish a minimal communication. | The too diligent bus inspectors possibly understood, a little, or possibly not, and invited me to went out. I actually already gave to her my card, and I followed her, with the aim to explain better my position. I think we were both speaking a language (English), while her colleague did not speak it at all, in which we were so little comfortable in using it, so it was really painful to try to establish a minimal communication. | ||
By the way, other Georgian passengers, in my same situation, just walked away from the 2 too diligent bus inspectors, so diligent and daredevils like pirates, or the bandits of the far west attacking stagecoaches (they won't agree with that definition, but I can explain it further and possibly demonstrate them that it is correct in a profound sense), and, because they found somebody perhaps a little angry, rightly so, but obsequious to the rules and in turn diligent, they proceeded to fine me, a miserable 20 GEL fine, who everybody is able to pay (which is of course good) at a price, rather, to treat me like that, get me off the thing, and waste me about 15 maybe 20 minutes of precious time: as I had to wait for another mashurtka with the same number. | By the way, other Georgian passengers, in my same situation, just walked away from the 2 too diligent bus inspectors, so diligent and daredevils like pirates, or the bandits of the far west attacking stagecoaches (they won't agree with that definition, but I can explain it further and possibly demonstrate them that it is correct in a profound sense), and, because they found somebody perhaps a little angry, rightly so, but obsequious to the rules and in turn diligent, they proceeded to fine me, a miserable 20 GEL fine, who everybody is able to pay (which is of course good) at a price, rather, to treat me like that, get me off the thing, and waste me about 15 maybe 20 minutes of precious time: as I had to wait for another mashurtka with the same number. |