Do you have a train journey you take every day and see the same old people? My journey is quite long so I see a variety of repeat offenders, making me think about who they are and what they do for a living. Here are a few I see:
- Guy looking like a strange gestapo agent, with his shiny face and slicked down hair – quite reminiscent of the Nazi gestapo guy in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- Woman who gets on and 90% of the time pulls out some sort of garment or fabric and continues her needlework. Quite sweet really.
- Trendy bloke who wears all the right clothes and amount of facial hair of someone who spends his summer in Pascha, Ibiza.
- Sad looking guy who calls someone in the morning and evening. I don’t think he is sad per-se but looks like he’s stuck in a rut of monotony with his Daily Express.
- Man who walks along the train when he gets on at Tonbridge searching for something/someone each day. By the looks of it, I don’t think he’ll find what he is looking for.
Sitting here, my mind drifts as to what their lives are like. Does the gestapo guy go home (he looks like he lives with his mother) and read up on the downfall of the Third Reich over a plate of beef stew? I’m betting the needlecraft lady has at least 5 cats at home. Isn’t it terrible how we (I?) stereotype??
I have taken this trip for not far off 2 years now and it’s funny how you see the people change all the time, seems like folk change jobs or routine quite often. Anyway, it makes you think how our lives might be vastly different in some respects but in the end, we are still on the same train going in the same direction.
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