When I lived in Tokyo, to get to one of my jobs it involved a one and a half hour commute each way and three trains. And the rail system being as
efficient as it was, if you missed one train, you could catch the next one that would be running about forty seconds later.
And I thought that was a bit of a schlep, however it pales to utter insignificance to a commute I heard about last week. A woman I was working with, used to
drive two hours each way work.
She started work at 8 a.m.She finished at 6p.m.I told her that I believed there should have been a statue built in honour of her dedication to her job.
And that was before she told me she did it for
nine years - and that it was considered quite normal behaviour in England.
I think the only thing that would be normal for me to do for four hours a day would be breathing.
Hah, crazy poms, no longer shall I grumble about my
twenty minute amble to work into the heart of the city during a howling southerly.
