bitful

So tonight I was coming home from work, totally absorbed by the book I'm reading (A Spot of Bother), I got off the train and walked along the platform to the exit, instinctively. A gesture you don't think about because you repeat it every day.

Most people were walking the opposite direction, so I realised I was walking away from the exit. My mind must have thought I was in a different carriage. It happens.

I took the exit and turned left towards the three escalators. Two were going up (as is the case in the evening). Only this time it was the two on the right instead of the usual ones on the left. They must be working on something, I thought.

Once up in the ticket hall, I noticed that the tills were on the left instead of on the right. Hang on, they can't have moved them since this morning.

I got off one stop too early. Trivial, I know, but it was absolutely wonderful to feel the mind tingling because of this tiny variation on a trite pattern.

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