Poetic justice
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"That's Life,' the BBC television programme, has established a cult of complaining in verse.
It has been followed by a girl who went to the Bob Dylan concert at Blackbushe and was unable to use the return half of her Alder Valley bus ticket because the buses stopped running. A five-stanza verse entitled "Blackbushe Lamentended.
So send me that half of my fare back For the service you didn't provide, And I'll tell you something for nothing, That's the last time you take me for a ride!
Brian Kennedy, press and public relations officer for the bus company, was equal to the occasion. He explained in eight stanzas that to avoid mowing down 250,000 crazed pop fans who broke down barriers and swept along the road like the hordes of Genghis Khan, the buses had to be withdrawn for a while. Waving an olive branch, he ended But in the interest of good public relations, We value our public, you see, Herewith with regrets and our good wishes, A refund, your 23p.