This Is This

My bus company is thinking of cutting some of the big coaches I catch into London, so they sent round a questionnaire for passengers to fill in.

It asked what time you leave in the morning and what time you return in the evening and what your address was, so they can have on one handy sheet all the convenient information about where your house is and its times of occupancy.

I skipped the address part and put in my postcode and email.

The next question was:

Q3: “Morning: Where do you board the bus, at what time and where do you alight?”

Which I answer honesty and as good as I’m able.

Q3a: “Afternoon: Where do you board the bus, at what time and where do you get alight?”

It’s the opposite route at a different time.

Q4: “If the answers to Q3 and Q3a are different please explain why.”

I think about this for a second.

“Because the questions are different. I can not catch the same bus to work that I get home in the evening. It defies the laws of physics.”

Seriously, though, if they want straight answers they should ask decent questions.

Where do these people alight?

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