The sleeper express

I started my current cycle of early shifts today. This means that the alarm clock goes of at 4am and then I stumble out of bed and get myself ready to go to work, whilst desperately trying to stay awake.

I then drive to the train station, and board the Frankfurt bound train at 05:12 if its on time. After applying the mp3 player I normally drift off into a deep slumber. I am way past the point of worrying about snoring or talking in my sleep - I do both!

I normally awake a few times to check where we are, and this morning we appeared a couple of times to be in the middle of nowhere with no forward motion. Apparently a train in front of us had broken down. So I got to work an hour later than usual, which isn't bad as it seems as it means more sleep and less work.

I recieved my new annual train ticket this week, and slowly it's dawning on me that there is a correlation between price and service. The more the price goes up the worse the service gets.