Out-of-Office Meetings

The last two weeks have been crazy in terms of my work schedule.  Lots of meetings requiring local travel had me riding a variety of trains at a variety of times.  This variety, however, allowed me to formulate some interesting insights about train riders.  For instance, it seems that people who ride the 4:48 am train are much more serious than the people that ride the train at 5:48 am.  Maybe all people who are actually awake at 4:48 am are just naturally more serious than those slackers who want to sleep that extra hour, but more studies need to be conducted.  Also, I noted that there are more Bible readers at 5:48 in the morning.  It's likely that there are more readers in general on the later train but it's an interesting observation nonetheless.  I do know there are definitely more talkers on the later train.  People are more willing to talk to each other and on their cell phones at 5:48 am.  The cell phone thing still has me confused.  It's clear from the snippets of conversations I overhear (and I really try not to eavesdrop) that the majority of early morning calls are personal in nature but I have to wonder who these people are talking to.  If I tried to call one of my friends at 5:48 am just to catch up, I'm not even sure they'd answer the call.  Even if they did, I think the conversation would be pretty short involving words like "are you crazy?" and "do you know what time it is?".  But then again, those are the same words they used when I decided to start this commuting adventure.