Just before 6pm, I was heading to the Hollywood MAX station to go back to my home in Vancouver with bike in tow. I assumed, like every MAX station I’ve been to, there’d be a ticket machine on the platform. Getting past the busy fare inspectors, in hopes to find one, all hope was lost. Being the honest person I am, instead of staying at the end of the platform, I circled back to continue my search up the stairs. “Can I see your ID?”, the fare inspector demanded
“I’m going to go buy a ticket, can you tell me – “
“I need to see your ID”
After meeting the coldest person in the world who slapped me with a $175 fine, and left me to my own devices to find the ticket machine after asking thrice, I headed back upstairs to finish completing my intentions. Just after selecting a ticket from the options given, you, looking no older than 23 with gauged ears, snuck up behind me to hand me a ticket you just bought and never used yourself. I thanked you once and not enough. I really hope this gets to you somehow, someway.

7 replies on “Restoring Faith in Humanity at the MAX Station”

  1. What’s with all the positivity on here, lately? Gimmie a sec…wait…working on it…here goes:
    What are you fucking stupid not knowing you need a ticket before you get there? That 23 year old probably stole the ticket he gave you. Gauged ears are a sign of excessive masturbation. Assholes.
    Whew. OK. Thanks!

  2. > After meeting the coldest person in the world who slapped me with a $175 fine, and left me to my own devices to find the ticket machine after asking thrice, I headed back upstairs to finish completing my intentions.

    So you were fined $175 for standing on the max platform without a ticket? Wut?

  3. Try fighting the ticket, especially if no MAX trains arrived/departed while you were on the platform. That would be the only circumstantial evidence they’d have on you at that point.

    No MAX. No proof that you actually used the service. They may reduce the fine either way though.

    Those ticket checkers are mongoloid assholes for sure.

  6. The ticket machines worked? They never work at the Hollywood Max, no signs and they are hidden around the elevator. And to be on the platform, you are suppose to have a ticket, regardless of trains. Keep your ticket though, just in case.

  7. The fucked up part about the Hollywood station is that the elevator shaft is in the middle of the platform that leads to the stairs. So, if you come from Hollywood, you go past the elevator and down the stairs. No ticket machine in sight. You have no idea that the ticket machines are BEHIND the elevator, visible ONLY as you approach from the Laurelhurst side.

    So, to give you that ticket – kind of BS. Sorry!

    Now, let’s talk about you living in the ‘Couv.

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