consequences

I missed my train returning from Brussels to Lyon, and had to wait several hours for the next one. That experience was pretty bad, and I was still annoyed when it was over, because now that I had missed a train, I had to leave more time to get to the station in the future, to avoid a repeat.

So when I took my train to the Paris airport, I got to the train station 15 minutes ahead of time, feeling both virtuous and pissed off at the 15 minutes I could have spent sleeping. It was then that I remembered that I had no actual train ticket, and had to exchange my plane ticket for a train ticket at the window, a process that took 14.5 minutes. So in the end I made my train by (I think) the second-closest I've made a train by, and the first-closest without being fined.