Average train ticket buying experience in Paris >machine seems complicated since chatgpt says 9-13 euros per ticket and machine is quoting me 16 >go to ticket office >ticket office is just a place with 3 helpdesks and 8 more machines and maybe 2 people helping >staff redirects you to machine since they deem you not super retarded >ok seems its gonna be that expensive whatever ill pay >touchscreen is at least 15y old, some monitor that has never been cleaned >asks me about passenger age range, whether ive signed up or not for their membership thing >i fill it out everything >ticket is for fixed time slot but small print says on same day can use any "subject to availability" >lol ok Next >now tells me to submit Name, Last Name, DOB in case i lose ticket so they can reissue a new one >the keyboard is fucking AZERTY >spend 5min filling out 40 characters >ticket prints on the same material as any supermarket receipt, not even cartboard or flimsy cartboard >it literally falls into the garbage bin they set up because clearly this happens all the time, no one can catch the paper at the velocity it goes Future of France