"Ben Nunn" wrote in message
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If you're five minutes late setting out in your car,
you're five minutes late, but if you're five minutes
late catching a train, you can miss connections,
which in turn might mean you miss other connections,
and your journey schedule can be ****ed completely.

Depending on the time of day, this can happen in a car as well. I have heard
many car drivers say that if they leave their house five minutes later,
their journey takes half an hour longer.

I have the reverse problem... I have to get somewhere at approx 10:30 every
Friday, and no matter what time I leave the house (by car) I get there at
about the same time. This is because a bus lane alongside the main traffic
jam deactivates at 10 am, so no matter where I am in the traffic jam at 9:59
I can be at the front of it at 10:01, because all the other drivers just
remain in the traffic jam. (Admittedly my radio-controlled watch gives me an
advantage over most of them.)

--
John Rowland - Spamtrapped
Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html
A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood.
That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes