Every morning it's a race between the metro and the train. I come from a small town and every morning I ride my bicycle to the train station so I can catch the morning train to work. The train is always packed so I need to stand. It takes about 20 minutes, so no problem for me. I just look outside and dream about far away and sunny places. Most people read their tabloids. It's after all free and when you say 'free' or 'gratis' as it's called in Dutch, everyone here is all over it. I just keep looking. No need for a newspaper when I can observe people and their morning rituals. Sometimes pretty amusing. At the end of the track I take the metro for about 3 minutes and then finishing with a 3 minute walk to work. But for some reason the train always seems to slow down when it reaches the last few 100 meters while the metro never waits for the people from the train wanting to hop over. So it's always a race of who will be first. If the train arrives before the metro, it would save me about 15 minutes of waiting time. Not that I want to go to work that badly, but I figure I already left my warm bed, my nice shower and my cozy home, so why keep dragging it. Better to be at work, drinking some hot tea and browsing the net for a bit to wake up. Beats standing on a cold platform This morning the train won.
