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I took the train to work today. Waiting to buy my ticket, I overheard a suit (tieless), carrying a beautiful briefcase, ask for a single return ticket. To his credit, the booking clerk/station master refrained from making the man wait until he worked out what he ought to say.

Is that a bit like the bloke who asked the Ticket Seller in the Rail Ticket Office for a return ticket.
"Certainly Sir", replied the Ticket Seller, "Where to?"
"Back here" came the riposte!

My poor American brain is failing to see the joke here... isn't a return ticket another name for a round trip ticket?

So a single return ticket would be, to quote a famous Hobbit, there and back again?

Glenn E. wrote:My poor American brain is failing to see the joke here... isn't a return ticket another name for a round trip ticket?

So a single return ticket would be, to quote a famous Hobbit, there and back again?

unless the brits meant .. to infinity and beyond?

Single = one way

Return = round trip

American humour = ?

Just one return ticket, please, as today I am travelling alone.

Might be said as ‟single return”.

Sighs.