Ticketless on the rails

Imagine you're stopped at the Guindy station by ticket inspectors. It's a mere formality, you're an upstanding citizen and always travel legally. The last thing that you expect is to be told that you've been travelling outside the 1 hour period that the ticket is valid for, you have exceeded that period by a horrible 100%, the fine for which is fifty times the cost of the ticket itself. Makes me wonder, really. Why is that limit 1 hour? A reasonable limit would be 4 hours. Of course, that's what I think. Ranjitha'll remember to buy the ticket the next time, she says. That's the right way to do it, while everybody waits for someone to modify the ticket printing machine to print 4 instead of 1 on that portion of the ticket. One can hope.

Otherwise, here's a comic that reminds me of somebody else who doesn't like my trebuchet ideas.