Rush Hour Back Home

When you finished your day job (if you have one), the rush is to reach home as fast as possible, but that is easy said than done. If you leave right at 5.00 in the evening and happen to work at high rise buildings, you have to wait for the elevator and in other times it would seem okay but when you have to go home, it seems like eternity. Once it arrives, you find many people standing there waiting anxiously to get down to earth. Once you enter the elevator then you pray that the elevator goes express (meaning does not stop at any floor and straight down to the entrance) otherwise even a limited local is annoying especially when you are cramped inside the elevator, watching the floor numbers go by. That is about the only thing you can do is to watch the number going back to one or Lobby sign.

Once you are down you want to leave as fast as possible from the elevator but as always there is only limited space which can squeeze in two people at a time. Once you are out of the building, you rush towards your transportation (in my case the Train) or towards the subway or your car or cab. In my case, I take the train to my destination (not my home) and it seems eternity that the train reaches your destination. The train is very crowded when you want to take at about 5 o’clock. No way to sit on the train, since the earlier you get in, the more stuck you become when your destination is on the way to the final one. You are stuck among people who rarely want to move to give way to departing passengers or incoming passengers despite the constant reminders of the conductor.