Mistaken Identity
On holiday in Orkney in 2017
Visited a historical site
“Four adults please”
Got three adults and a concession
Concession? What???!!!
Who’s the concession?
There are no students
Or over 60s in our party
It was a case of mistaken identity
They thought I was too young to be an adult
They didn’t think to ask my age
Or for student ID
I was twenty three years old
With no student ID
I was unemployed
Nothing to say unemployed are concessions
We queried it
They wouldn’t change it
This mistake meant that
I couldn’t get my money’s worth
It was a silly mistake
No ID means no concessions
They should have changed it
So I could get my money’s worth
Since then I have wondered
Why anyone would sell
A concession ticket
To a non concession
26/07/21
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