Why I hate commuting ... part 1

The company I work for has recently relocated. I can no longer have a pleasant walk to work. Instead, I have an hour commute - one short bus journey, two tube journeys and a light railway journey. All that to travel seven miles.

This morning I left the house at 7:45 and stopped travelling at 10:00. In that time, it took me about fifty minutes to travel 3 miles. After an incredibly slow stop-start tube journey, the tube line was suspended. My choice was joining a bus queue that was about 400 yards long to wait for an over-flowing bus to take me to the next interchange or try to find a bus going in the opposite direction and take the day off work. I chose the latter.

So I've got the day off today but I'll have to do it all again tomorrow.

Tell me, why do we do this?