The Great Escape

The lady I was sitting next to on the train was proudly telling someone on the phone that she was going to be on time and she would shed her reputation of constantly being late. She pointed out that it was only 7:32 and that she was just pulling into the station for her 7:40 meeting. The guy sitting opposite her pointed out that it was actually 7:31 in a feeble attempt to fire up a conversation and possibly get lucky :o) He was interested. They chuckled, although in her case she did so uncomfortably, making it as obvious as possible that she was on her way to see her boyfriend. She was not interested; she got off the train and was greeted by an older woman (mother?).

And so I trundled along on the 19:27 service to Woking (1927 being the year the train was put into service).