What sort of people try to trick their loyal customers with double negative questions? After spending 30 minutes on the National Express website, attempting to buy a coach ticket from London to Leeds, they tell me:
We regularly send out details of our special offers and promotions
Now it goes without saying that I don’t want to receive any information, but I’m now so mentally exhausted from the user-unfriendly ticket-buying process that I honestly can’t work out whether I should leave the box ticked:
Or unticked:
Perhaps my students can help me. Where are you when I need you?
6 responses so far ↓
1 mura // Feb 27, 2009 at 12:29 pm
hmm hope you were not too ticked off!
2 admin // Feb 27, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Hello Mura
Yes - absolutely ‘ticked off’
http://www.amazon.co.uk/602-Reasons-Be-Ticked-Off/dp/0740747614/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235752782&sr=8-7
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dear-God-Im-Ticked-Off/dp/0825431751/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235752782&sr=8-4
http://kids.yahoo.com/jokes/964
Jamie
3 Lix // Mar 10, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Very confusing: reading for detail indeed needed! It doesn’t help that there seem to be no hard and fast rules on this. In this way these sites are rather like women waiting for a call from a cute guy: there are the pessimistic ‘un-ticked’ ones, who really hope that tick/call is forthcoming, but wait for you to make the first move, and there are the more optimistic ones who make the first move…but of course still hope not to be ‘un-ticked’! The real question here though Jamie is ….what on earth were you doing on a National Express bus in the first place?? Images of Trainspotting leap to mind; thank goodness you weren’t travelling from Edinburgh!
4 admin // Mar 10, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Ha ha - great way to look at it. This has got to be the epitome of reading for detail.
What’s wrong with National Express buses (or coaches I should say)? I quite like them as long as I get a window seat and don’t have to sit beside a smelly person.
5 Lix // Mar 10, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Even if you have a sweet-smelling travelling companion, the buses themselves seem to have a uniquely cloying smell of stale disinfectant….and they are always late and take forever! But enough of buses/coaches (walking dictionary required?) : congrats on your award! Sure it will be the first of many.
6 admin // Mar 10, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Thank you Lix. It’s really nice of you to say so.
Jamie
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