A Tuesday morning, John woke up with a bad headache. John, a software engineer from India, is in the USA on an offshore project of his company. He usually goes to office in metro train that takes him about thirty minutes from his place to his office. This day all his morning activities are moving on the slower pace. The headache seems to have affected his enthusiasm and totally slowing him down. Breakfast also wasn't much to his liking. John was having a disgusting start to his day.
The train that he usually takes is at 8AM from the station at a ten minutes walk from his apartment. Today, but he has to hurry to get the train as only five more minutes left for the train. If this train is missed, then the next train will be after another thirty minutes that will make him late for the office. John was almost running to the station, but just to see the train pass by as he reached the entrance of the station.
John was totally annoyed with himself and was cursing his luck for the day. But the next forty five minutes showed him that he was actually lucky that day as the five minutes that caused him missing the train had actually saved his life because if he had got the train he would be in his office by 8:30AM, which is in the World Trade Center in Newyork City and would be in the list of casualties in the terrorist attack which happened on 8:45AM.
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