On the morning train

Barrelling out of a club, mid comedown as the sun is coming up and seeing all the bright and cheery people on a Sunday morning going to church or wherever. You're dressed in flourescent clubbing gear caked in grime and sweat from 8hrs of dancing.

This picture is VERY accurate.

Hell yeah, that's the real church though at the end of the day
Thriller starts playing

Dear NotSpez, I'm in the rollercoaster on the right lane and I don't like it a lot.

Mrs TotallyNotSpez, what a pleasure to see you again! Just a shame about the circumstances, hope your day is salvageable despite of the early start.
The right lane from whose perspective, Mr Totally?
- Mrs TotallyNotSpez says:
  The getting up at 6am lane

Heard somebody brush their teeth and prepare for bed as I was leaving for the gym today at 5am. Worst part is I'm not sure who it was as there are at least 3 people I live with that likes to roam the apartment at night.

Dude, they're your wife and children, and she says to, please, stop calling them your roommates.

"Got Up or Stayed Up" is a fun game to play at Burning Man.

You mean in college?

An then there are those that swing days and nights who are stuck in perpetual limbo. My sleep schedule sucks.

I woke up at 3 am because my body is pulling a prank on me

It’s just a prank bro. -my body

in a mental asylum
They either need a hug, a better pillow or an exorcism would be my guess ;)
- I know a guy who sells pillows and is probably not in prison yet.
I'm usually up around 5 and I love it.

How impractical for the ghouls.

They boarded the ride, their leader says:

Alright guys, just buckle in and sit tight. Halfway during the ride we will get somewhat close to another train coming the other way. We only have a few seconds and we aren't really close enough to do anything, so just wave at them menacingly and try your best to scare them. For everyone sitting on the right, you are way out of range, so we need our most scary faces there. Don't be disappointed, they will probably still be scared and we get to enjoy the rest of the ride for ourselves.

They all cheer and put their hands up. One guy totally forgets about the other train and is just vibing with the experience.

I imagine they all went and got some ice cream after.

Night shift handing off to morning shift

This has got to be Iron Maiden album art right?

Turns out it's a painting by Johnny Craig
- Interestingly it was unpublished until it showed up on a blog.
  I've always wondered if it was made for a commercial use that fell through. It looks like it should be a goosebumps book, or a poster advertising a Halloween event at an amusement park.

Try a train full of homeless meth heads who haven't showered in 6 years oozing puss from their face

I wish I could sleep in, but my brain says it's 5am and to get up then do nothing for an hour.

I don't know about you but I enjoy my niksen time.
- Niksen time? As in nichts, as in nothing?

Shift handovers

This 💯
It was annoying af coming off a 3rd 12 shift at 7am dying to get home and passing the overly cheerful day shift morning people. "good morning! Happy Friday!"
I worked at a factory once where the day shifts swapped each week (6am-2pm and 2pm-10pm), but the night shift was just the night shift. And those fuckers were like ghouls.