OMFG!!
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Today i had the worst Metro debarkle EVER!!! I usually go to university by train (edit: SYDENHAM line REPRESZENTZSZ!!!
) and touch on with my myki. When I am on negative balance, i usually just put enough money so that I am above 0 and can touch on again. Today i touched off at North Melbourne station, not thinking too much that because i had just touched off and was now on a negative balance that i was actually going to commit the "Metro Offence" of fare evading. LIKE FFS!!!! So I get onto the 401 bus unbeknownst to the fact that I was going to get the biggest grilling by those metro ticket inspectors.
They asked me why I didn't have a positive balance on my myki. I replied by saying well the 401 bus myki contraptions that you got going here 9 times out of 10 don't work so i didn't think too much of it because i'm going to go home later today and you'll get the rest of my fees for the daily ticket when i touch on, on the way home. They replied by, well that's not a good enough excuse (which I personally thought was the most well-constructed answer to that question that anyone could give, but anyway) that you knew that you didn't have enough funds but you still decided to hop onto the bus anyway. Man at this point i was like so worried that my wallet would get burned that I decided to just play along with this dimwit and autonomously nod my head at everything that he said. I was so humiliated in front of a bus full of people and will probably from this day be the kid who got "OWNED" by metro.
He then had the audacity to say well i'm going to give you the "benefit of the doubt" because you look like a smart kid because you go to university. F***!! metro FFS !!!
So the moral of this story is, make sure you have a positive myki balance even if you are close to 100% sure that the myki machines on those 401 buses will probably not work, because that's fare evading guys.