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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
What's the meaning
of written up here?
"I rode the Muni for the first time today in SF. Got on around Judah and paid my 2 dollars in cash. I went and found a seat and 20 minutes later I looked up and saw some sign that said you needed a receipt/transfer slip. I asked a lady next to me and she told me you only need one for transferring (which I was not)
I got off at Powell and got written up for a ticket plus additional money for apparently "Talk Evasion" as listed on the ticket. This is probably the biggest joke and"
Thanks a million!
"I rode the Muni for the first time today in SF. Got on around Judah and paid my 2 dollars in cash. I went and found a seat and 20 minutes later I looked up and saw some sign that said you needed a receipt/transfer slip. I asked a lady next to me and she told me you only need one for transferring (which I was not)
I got off at Powell and got written up for a ticket plus additional money for apparently "Talk Evasion" as listed on the ticket. This is probably the biggest joke and"
Thanks a million!
Top answer
Jin_H I got off at Powell and got written up for a ticket "To write someone up" is usually something that a person in authority does when he "busts" someone. I'm not really clear on what happened here. In this case, he may have written a "citation" for a violation of some strange rule or regulation which required the author to pay a fine.
- Jin_H I got off at Powell and got written up for a ticket "To write someone up" is usually something that a person in authority does when he "busts" someone.
- I'm not really clear on what happened here.
- In this case, he may have written a "citation" for a violation of some strange rule or regulation which required the author to pay a fine.
- Or it may be a non-standard use of the expression, indicating that the driver/conductor hand wrote the "receipt/transfer slip," adding a fine for the violation.
- It's not clear if he had to pay his fare a second time in order to get the transfer.
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Jin_HI got off at Powell and got written up for a ticket"To write someone up" is usually something that a person in authority does when he "busts" someone.
I'm not really clear on what happened here.
In this case, he may have written a "citation" for a violation of some strange rule or regulation which required the author to pay a fine.
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