A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her To Work by 7 AM (nytimes.com)

From a report on The New York Times: Sheila James starts her Monday, and the workweek, at 2:15 a.m. This might be normal for a baker or a morning radio host, but Ms. James is a standard American office worker. She is 62 and makes $81,000 a year as a public health adviser for the United States Department of Health and Human Services in San Francisco. Her early start comes because San Francisco is one of the country's most expensive metropolitan areas. Ms. James lives about 80 miles away in Stockton, which has cheaper homes but requires her to commute on two trains and a bus, leaving at 4 a.m. Plenty of office workers get up at 5 a.m. or a bit before, but 2:15 is highly unusual. "Two-fifteen is early enough that some people are still having their evening," she said on a (very) early morning. But she likes to take her time and have coffee. She keeps the lights low and the house quiet and Zen-like. "I just can't rush like that," she said. When the second alarm goes off at 3:45 -- a reminder to leave for the train in 15 minutes -- her morning shifts from leisure to precision. It is a seven-minute drive to the station, where she catches the Altamont Corridor Express train.

Comments

Re:And she's one of the lucky ones

[Frosty Piss]

Having children is a choice...

One that you don't have to wory about.

Re: I took the bus once

[Anonymous Coward]

Squeezing into a shirt the size of a pup tent that's still too small is probably what takes so long.

Re: And she's one of the lucky ones

[ShanghaiBill]

low and behold even using condoms AND the pill she still ends up pregnant.

Perhaps you should do a paternity test on "your" kids.

Re:And she's one of the lucky ones

[Anonymous Coward]

Hopefully future generations are fewer pedantic.

Re:And she's one of the lucky ones

[computational super]

Hm - pretty sure my wife skipped over that part.

Re: And she's one of the lucky ones

[computational super]

you loyally accepted that she was pure and honest and it was yours

Well, not OP, but... I have two kids myself, and have never had paternity tests done. I'm fairly certain I don't need to, though, because if she did cheat on me, she cheated with a guy that looks and acts exactly like me, and made two kids that look and act exactly like me. If anything, she ought to be the one asking for a blood test to make sure those kids are really hers...