Wednesday, 4 January 2006

Sleep is the new awake

I wonder, does anyone actually come back to work refreshed (or even awake) after having time off? I've fallen asleep on the train yesterday and today on my way into work and it nearly cost me. Yesterday, I left home without a train ticket, so swung by the ATM for a crisp fifty before going to the station. At the station, the café was closed, so I couldn't buy a new ticket there. Of course the machines on the trains don't take fifties so, after sleeping from Mitcham to Adelaide, I bought one at the customer service counter within Adelaide station. I handed over my money, took my ticket, and went through the turnstiles. But as I was putting the ticket in my wallet, I noticed that a picture of Little Miss L had fallen out of it, so I was sort of looking back over the turnstiles on the ground for the picture. It was then I noticed a girl from the train whose ticket hadn't worked. She was at the counter I had just been at and was gesturing to me, pointing towards the counter window. I thought "have I left the photo there?" and thought I'd go back. Then, as I went back through the turnstiles, the whole sequence of events replayed in my head and I realised I'd walked away with my ticket but had forgotten to wait for my change. Fifty bucks is a lot to pay for a 10-trip ticket. Lucky I lost that photo.

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