This week had been a quiet week with not much happening until this morning. I was walking through the train and went into 1st class where I found a man fast asleep. He was well dressed, in a dark blue pin stripe suit but looked as if he had had a hard night. He smelt of alcohol so it came as no surprise that he would not wake up. I left him alone and decided that I would wake him when I came back through.
A few minutes later I returned to the 1st class carriage and this time I woke him up. He was a very friendly man and he readily agreed to buy a 1st class ticket. He paid for his ticket in cash and you can imagine how surprised I was when he said ‘keep the change’. In this case the change was around £18. I said I couldn’t but the man insisted and went on to explain that he was on his way home having been out all night. I joked with him that his wife wouldn’t speak to him when he got home and he told me almost apologetically that he had last spoken to his wife at 4pm the previous afternoon when he rang her to say he was going out for a few drinks after work.
‘Oh dear, you really will be in trouble’ I told him
’No, I don’t think I will’ he replied with a cheeky grin.
‘You see, after I left my friends I went to the casino and won £17,000’ and calmly he proceeded to pull out a wad of bank notes from every pocket of his slightly dishevelled, navy blue, pin striped suit.
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