train guard asked for tickets, I showed my ITSO card expecting needing to wait for them to scan it and validate that I'd tapped in, they just go "yeah that's fine"

twice now that's happened (only ever needed to scan to prove once ever

one day I'll be brave enough to play the "show any vaguely rectangular thing to a guard and see if they assume it's a ticket" game
@theresnotime you could try that while still having an actual valid ticket

if they notice the rectangle isn't the ticket, you probably wouldn't be in trouble because you're still able to show an actual ticket