Access denied

Hopped off the train at Waterloo earlier today, all raring to go for the traditional bacon sandwich taken before concerts at St. Luke's, to be red-lighted on the ramp. Try three or four bikes, that is to say Bullingdons, but the same story. Try a few more down Stamford Street, but the same story. Decide that something is wrong with my account.

Decide not to get a taxi to St. Luke's, which would have given me time for my sandwich, but decide instead to walk. I need the exercise.

Decide also not to attempt to use one of the competitor bikes littering the pavements, mostly in lurid colours. Maybe that is something I should do in slower time.

Some hours later, that is to say this evening, I get around to logging into my Bullingdon account to find that it has been suspended. All bikes safely returned to base, so missing bike is not the problem - checked because it would be easy enough to push one's bike into a post without it locking in properly, although I have yet to fail in that particular way. Then there is a message about something being wrong with my payment details. Go to payment details, which seem to be blank, and fill them in. Which is all fine and dandy, but I still seem to be suspended. Time to talk to a person.

After a little while I get through to the right number, which is answered after only a short wait. Account reactivated. No idea what went wrong. Not obvious why the trouble at reference 1 would have carried forward in this way, after more than a month and after several rides - if indeed that was the root of the problem. But the call centre operator was confident that next time I put my key into a post it would not be red-lighted. Maybe I will make a special expedition to Waterloo to be sure.

So not the end of the world, but tiresome to get to the big town, expecting an invigorating ride, but to be reduced to foot slogging or going down the tube. Tiresome also that walking seems to be harder work than cycling these days.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/09/cheese.html.