A long segmented metal tube
skims along two parallel metal strips
taking a subsection of the species known as 'the commuter'
sometimes reluctantly
from the place they want to be
to a different place where they don't really want to be
to perform a function such as delivering a service
mending something
selling something
creating something
or building something
in order for 'the commuter' to earn the small round pieces of metal
and the rectangular polymer sheets needed
to buy the small thin pieces of coloured printed card
or to be able to add specific data onto their addictive
noisy
rectangular
multifunctional communication devices
that allows them to ride
(sometimes sitting - sometimes standing)
within the long
metal
segmented tube
for a defined period of time
and in a specific direction.
On this journey sometimes 'the commuter' is happy
sometimes not so - depending on the reason for the journey.
Being a commuter
this journey away from the place they were in
is usually made around the time when the star they call their sun has just risen banishing the dark.
The dark period is the period when commuters play and rest and wash their socks
(socks being small knitted devices made of fibres which initially come as matching pairs but within one of the two a device is fitted to ensure that the sock gets lost when they're washed - washing machines have a reciprocal function which works along with the sock to achieve this - the ones that remain
fit on peoples feet to keep them warm and comfortable when they commute - but no longer as a matching pair).
To qualify as a 'commuter' you must have just woken up and as such must not be fully 'compos mentis' (with it!)
nor be fully replenished!
A typical meal for a commuter is an 'Energy Drink'
(a sparkling; sugar ladened beveridge available in a much smaller metal tube with many unsubstantiated promises printed on the outside) and 'Mars Bars' (a high fat; high sugar; high colestoral slab
coated in a substance made from the fruit of the Cacao tree
all wrapped in a material traditionally made from products which are leading to the downfall of the commuters planet).
Neither of these substances will successfully provide 'the commuter' with enough energy over a substantial period
(certainly not until the time when they stop the function they have been undertaking all day
and go and find another long segmented metal tube to return to the place where they wash their socks).
Once back at the place they wash their socks
'the commuter' must then cram in all the things they wished they'd been doing (Including washing their socks)
before having to go and rest because their star (the sun) has now disappeared and all is dark!
Rest is very important because when next their star rises
heralding another day
they're going to have to do it all again!
(including washing their socks!)
