It was a normal Tuesday for Ted Williams, on his way to his job at 6:30 in the morning. He has no wife or children and his parents have recently passed away. He is in a dead-end job that he hates. He doesn't even know why he continues to work there; maybe it is for the money or sense of responsibility. Either way the job is very degrading. His daily routine is very uniform. He stops at his usual coffee stand for his decaffeinated coffee and jelly donut for breakfast. He then makes his way to the 16th subway station and waits for the 7:00 subway. As he stands there eating his donut he notices something very peculiar about the station. Through his eyes it appears to be bigger than usual. Maybe it is just the early morning and lack of sleep affecting his judgment but it is bothering him. The subway arrives on time and he boards.
As he is sitting on the seats he watches rats along the subway scurry off the track and into the little cracks into the wall. He wonders what it is like to be that small. As the rats distract him he spills his coffee on the sleeve of his shirt. As he wipes the coffee off his sleeve he notices that his sleeves are bigger than they use to be. He ponders it for a minute
"Come in!" screams Joe. He takes one look at who it is and turns around in his chair.
"You wanted to see me sir?" asks Ted.
As he arrives at work his boss at the front door greets him.
As he got to the platform of the station he thought of only one thing to do, hide with the rats. He stepped to the edge of the platform and jumped. With his eyes closed and arms in the air he landed on the tracks with a hard thud. He saw a few of the subway rats and followed them to their hideout. As he approached the rats they looked at him, snickered and then ran-off. Not only is has he been rejected by humanity but by the lowest form of creature on the earth, subway rats. This really hurt him because it was at this point in time that he finally realized that he was worth nothing and a waste, a waste of time, space, and effort. He wanted to end in then and there. He stood and waited for the next subway to come barreling down the tracks. As he saw the bright light coming he said to himself, I had a chance to be someone but I failed. I was nobody and made nothing of myself. The subway was coming from about 50 feet, he saw the bright light and when it hit him he woke up.
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