Synchrony! (by alaric)
Our week goes like this.
Monday morning, Sarah gets on a train to London.
Wednesday evening, at 8:30pm, I get on a train to London (Jean is with her grandfather for this bit). Then at 10:15pm Sarah gets on a train back from London, the same time as my train gets in. She gets home at about midnight, then on Saturday, I come home and we get the weekend together before she goes off again next Monday morning. This is not a very pleasant state of affairs - we're a close couple, and we miss each other keenly.
Anyway, this evening, my train into Paddington was a bit early - so I rang her as my train was pulling in at 10:09. She was in coach D of the train on platform 2, waiting for it to go; my train came in on platform 3, and I was in coach E. Platforms 2 and 3 are opposite sides of the same physical platform. So I got out, crossed the platform, walked one carriage down, and there was Sarah! She came to the door of the train, and we had an unexpected five minutes together!
Thu 30th Oct 2008 12:03 am 
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By Ben, Thu 30th Oct 2008 @ 9:57 am
Why don't you change to spending Monday - Weds in London? Or is that a silly idea?
By alaric, Thu 30th Oct 2008 @ 10:08 am
Because then I'd have Jean with me, which would be awkward :-/
By Gavan Fantom, Fri 31st Oct 2008 @ 5:11 pm
You could train Jean to do all your work for you. Code for toys seems like a mutually beneficial arrangement to me...