Charged a Ruter card for an upcoming month. Tried to activate it right away - terminal shown me that I still have 2 days on my previous ticket. Okay, I thought, the new ticket will start after the current one expires - something you would expect to be by design, at least that's the way it worked in Moscow.

One week later a ticket-control at T-bane asked me for my ticket. I shown it to them, and they told me that it is not activated. And right after that they shown me their terminal with their system where it was clearly marked that I purchased my ticket a week ago and tried to activate it. But since I did it before the previous ticket expired, they explained, the new one did not activate.

So what is the fucking point in storing all that information in your system, if it is not used for anything? Why on earth wouldn't the new ticket activate after the previous one expires, if user explicitly tried to activate it? Bloody hell.

Good thing they let me go without paying any fine, although they said that they put me in some "system". Well, I'll know better next time.

#norway #fail