Other routes around the city were far more populated and the trains ran twenty-four hours a day there, but I lived in an area that wasn't massively populated and then it was mostly office workers of some description like myself that caught the trains. People with real money drove their BMWs and Mercedes into town and parked in their private parking spaces; while those who worked in industry or construction usually drove because the trains were rarely going where they needed to go and they couldn't carry all their tools.

I sat down and dug around in my bag for my book. After finding it I placed my bag between...