"The train now arriving on platform one is the......"
The female voice on the tannoy made me speed down the station steps...... In time to board the...
"........ The National Express train to London Liberpool Street calling at Stratford"
And in next to no time
" The train arriving at Platform five is the blah! blah! blah!......."
Stratford station came and went
The carriage is quite apart from one male commuter seated a few seats behind me
"Yeah, where are you now?" talking loudly on his mobile..... Then his voice becomes inaudible
Why?
The man sitting opposite me is chewing loudly!