#599 Galloping Foxley- Roald Dahl
Perkins commutes to work every morning by train. He takes the same train every day, with the dame people, sits in the same seat and enjoys it.
“Believe me, there is nothing like routine and regularity for preserving one’s piece of mind. I have now made this morning journey nearly ten thousand times in all, and I enjoying more and more every day.”
“I am in every sense of the word a contented commuter.”
He is a man of habit and anytime there is a change in this habit, he is thrown off. One day a large man stands on the platform waiting for the train. He is new and all the daily commuters shift nervously. He dares to sit across from Perkins, and Perkins is appalled and offended. Worse, he recognized him as his childhood bully from fifty years ago. At least he thinks that is who it is.
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