Running Man
My school was right at the end of the longest road in the town - closing in on a couple of miles. Right at the other end of the road was the railway station.

Every morning, as I looked out the window of the car on the way in, I saw the same man running at full pelt towards the railway station. His face was puffed and blowzy; his hair flickered in grey streamers in the wind; his shirt wrenched itself more and more from the confines of his belt with every passing step; and his briefcase swung wildly as though he were trying to fight off Hunter S. Thompson's hordes of invisible bats. Yet every day, there he was, wheezing at the injustice of mornings and aching for the moment when he could collapse on the train and sweat on his fellow commuters.

What I never figured out was why he didn't just set his alarm clock that little bit earlier. Maybe that morning race was the only moment of his life when he genuinely felt alive. Maybe he was a muppet.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Sun 16 Oct 2011, 11:40, 5 replies)

Living Life On The Edge
In his home he had a large red display digital clock mounted above the front door. He would watch it patiently as the countdown approached the predesignated minimum time allowance provided for an all-out-sprint-to-the-train.

Every week one second would be taken off the allowed time.

Life.

On the Edge.
(roysin, Sun 16 Oct 2011, 14:32, closed)

Heh
It's not often I laugh at replies more than the original posts. But today is one of those days.
(El Fandango carved a big EF onto his nemesis' doublet on .., Sun 16 Oct 2011, 18:47, closed)

Me too..
Especially, the 'On The Edge' part, as for some reason, I can't help but imagine this post being read by that gravelly voiced bloke who does the voiceovers for Hollywood movies.
(danniekavanagh did nothing constructive on, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 6:15, closed)

Maybe he had to catch a bus to the train station
If he didn't run from the bus station then he would miss his train.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 16 Oct 2011, 23:23, closed)

Judging by my life, he had kids at school
For it is a universal property of the universe that the time you need to drop your kids off is *just* too late for the train / bus to work
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 11:43, closed)