h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A one-way journey to be forgotten and ignored,
A waste of a life.
Sitting down for an eternity, with nothing to remember.
Everything outside is a blur
Dark windows show nothing outside
Now and then a white sign with jumbled letters -
You see it again and again, but with characters in
different orders.
Same place, same white sign.
For ever trapped in a two-a-side row.
The table is real - the cold window against your ears is
real.
Your eyesight is not.
You see stereotyped phantoms in your eyes.
A group of immature girls, giggling, chewing gum,
slithering into each other.
The smart looking business man - with matching tie and
socks, briefcases arranged in alphabetical order.
They arrive, they stay, they go.
They don't exist in the world - just invisible campanions
on a mindless journey.
The journey is eternal. It never ends.
Yet when it does, it is forgotten. A whole part of your
life wasted, ignored, not needed.
Still, forever, a part of your soul remains on the train.

Sounds deep. I take it Eccles wasn't there to talk to ?

No - this was on the journey back from visiting her on her birthday on Monday. When you're stuck on a train for 5 1/2 hours, your mind wonders...

Don't I know it. It took me 5 hrs to get to Cambridge last week.

btw., how old is Eccles? Take it she's another student.

The worst thing was, the journey's only supposed to be 4 hours - 1 1/2 hours late. I've never been on time with Virgin Rail...
As for Eccles, she's 20 - studying at Staffordshire University in Stoke.