Lost in Transit

[caddyman]

Ah, the joys of public transport. It’s almost a supernatural experience sometimes as it has the ability to take a string of short delays and stretch them into something greater than the sum of their parts.

Public transport is the only thing in my experience that can take three separate five minute delays, which can make you twenty-five minutes late for work. There is something horribly X-Files about the missing ten minutes. Where do they go? What happens to us during that missing time? Do the morlocks of the underground scamper and play amongst aisles of immobile commuters?

Part of me wants to know. Part of me doesn’t.

I should, however, appreciate someone explaining the physics of it all to me. Is there a gravity well involved? It’s always gravity wells in Star Trek…