Living in a bit of a hub for public transport in London means that getting from A to B (or A to anywhere, for that matter) is usually cheap and easy.

My local train station has these credit card ticket machines where you can cut out the long queues with a couple of screen presses and the insertion of plastic.

All very well and good - unless you get a machine like this one which decided to take my card and immediately shutdown only to display the dreaded Blue Screen of Death for my trouble. I'd swear it laughed at me. Really.