I ask myself whether or not you have yet travelled on the "Bendy Buses" (aka "Happy Buses" because payment appears to be optional) and whose drivers tend to wear the benevolent demeanour of a travelling philanthropist.

As a regular traveller on the 25, which goes through "bandit country" on its way from Oxford Circus to the Ilford Badlands, I am always intrigued to see how many of those alighting through the rear two pairs of doors somehow forget to use their Oyster card.....

"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson