One of my kids fetched up without money for a ticket at a transit terminal a couple towns away when neither myself or my ex had a car in the days before smartph

One of my kids fetched up without money for a ticket at a transit terminal a couple towns away when neither myself or my ex had a car in the days before smartphones. Pretty simple: phoned the station, they paged the kid, gave him a ticket and a payment form which I was glad to take care of when he got back home.