The joys of commuting
These last two weeks, I've had the pleasure of rising at 6:00 each morning to catch the train from Leamington to London, returning home just before 9:00 in the evening. Now normally this would provoke in me a three hour tirade on the inconveniences thereby suffered, but in fact, I can't say as I've really minded.
An hour and a half train journy twice a day has provided me with quite a nice time to justifiably do nothing in particular. I can sit, read the paper or a book, listen to music, or just gaze at the (admitedly somewhat monotonous) countryside, all without having the slightest feeling of guilt that I should be doing something more productive. In fact I might even miss this rather pleasent period of enforced idleness…
Jonathan Jones
07 Aug 2006 12:02
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Here Here. Strange as it may sound I’m actually looking forwards to my bus journeys into university next year. For seven years I have been commuting (either to secondary school or college) and it’s an experience I’ve missed. Not only are there the above benefits, but there is also the benefit of properly talking to people you may only vaguely know and so only salute if you weren’t forced to sit next to them for half an hour.
09 Aug 2006, 10:32
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