Why does my train ticket app always bomb out just when I reach a platform barrier?

EPISODE 11

Stoogey: You still got the tickets?
Ali: Yes, look for yourself. Here’s the QR code. If I have to keep showing you, my battery will run out and the OLEDs will melt.
Stoogey: It's best to be sure.
Ali: You’re not wrong there. It took me nearly half an hour to log into the app and navigate my way through the labyrinthine UX to find our tickets.
Stoogey: I can imagine.
Ali: Even after I got past the usual username, password, two-factor authentication, full-body scan and rectal examination, I had to fight my way through the multiple cookie prompts and that screen where you can deny permission to show pop-up ads, and then about 500 pop-up ads that they show you anyway.
Stoogey: I see.
Ali: Now I’m on the ticket QR code screen, I don't dare leave it.
Stoogey: Check it again. Make sure it’s still there.
Ali: Good idea. Whoa!
Stoogey: Whoa! You could light up a cathedral with that…

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