Ispolkom
Engineer
Last weekend I bought a ticket at the depot (I did it in person because I had some unused tickets to turn in). Strangely enough, the agent insisted that I needed to have the new ticket written with my first and last names on it. TSA regulation, he claims.
This was annoying, since a) I've always gone by my middle name, and my AGR account is in my middle name, and b) I've always had middle-name last-name on my Amtrak tickets, including one that I was turning in, a ticket issued at that very station.
I didn't make more of a scene because Mrs. Ispolkom was with me, so now I have a ticket that won't earn me AGR points, since the name is wrong.
I chalk this incident up to an officious agent screwing around with me, and will be more careful to buy tickets on-line and use the quik trip machine.
This was annoying, since a) I've always gone by my middle name, and my AGR account is in my middle name, and b) I've always had middle-name last-name on my Amtrak tickets, including one that I was turning in, a ticket issued at that very station.
I didn't make more of a scene because Mrs. Ispolkom was with me, so now I have a ticket that won't earn me AGR points, since the name is wrong.
I chalk this incident up to an officious agent screwing around with me, and will be more careful to buy tickets on-line and use the quik trip machine.