Go on, sell me a Brompton

Funnily enough I also wear Loakes, an older pair during the week and a best pair for Saturdays.  We could be twins if you bought the Rohan....

No sure you would like that??

All sounds terribly exciting Bromp ! You must miss all that?
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We all do these things - don't we? My PB of 29 minutes from the former office is something I managed several times - usually in the golden hour before they closed lanes on the M4 for night-time repairs, but once at 3am - but every time I thought I was in with a chance of beating it, I'd be baulked by a Jazz driver or an unnecessary (I thought) red light. Won't happen at all now.

I would actually have to seriously consider euthanising myself if I had to do something like that every day, every week, every month, every year etc.
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Sort of what Otto says.

The trains (different types over years) were always reasonably comfortable and had only two or three stops. In last few years another bit of geekery was to know which trains included one of the three subclasses of type 350 EMU on the route. The 350/1 sets have four abreast seating and coach B has 3 bays of 'club 4' type seats with a table and space to stow a Brompton between the seatbacks. Coffee, newspaper etc carried on. Or I could sleep or plan the day.

One bit of time saving that never appealed was travel at 'London' end of train - the exit and footbridge are Northampton is at south end too. Not worth the scrummages to get off the train and through the barrir.

Even the view from the window didn't pale in 24years; changing seasons or watching progression of lineside developments saw to that.

I'm afraid my commuting stories are weak beer to all yours.

First job, which lasted four months was a 30 miles each trip of mainly easy flowing motorway. I left to train as a Chartered Surveyor in 1988. In all that time, my commuting has been by car with a maximum one-way trip of 7.5 miles (the one have now) of which four miles is easy flowing motorway.... 15 minutes usually.

There was a short period 18 years ago when I got the bus into the city centre during a temporary contract but as the stop was outside the house and the walk to the office was two minutes it wasn't really a hardship.

Think I would go mad at anything longer.

Now you see, that's what I mean.

As soon as you make it a journey where you have to hurry, its frustrating and tedious. I *always* have enough time to get out of my seat after the lemmings have squeezed through the door and walk down the platform uncrushed after them. Nobody gets in my way, no push to get through barriers, etc. etc.