She dressed with the same lack of interest as she did every morning of every day. It didn't matter if she  went to work or stayed at home.  To her clothes were functional, that was it. As she dressed she inspected her body dispassionately  in the full length mirror.  What looked back was a dirty blonde with lots of grey atop a heavy set body.  She wasn't hugely fat or anything, but rather shapeless.  Her breasts had given up the fight with gravity and were slowly beginning to soften, a good bra still optimized support and since she worked in a too cold, grey office, her bras were padded.  She bent and slid her pants on, one grey leg at a time over her bland, charcoal grey socks.  Then she slid over her functional, bland, beige bra a dusky lavender blouse with pearl buttons. Her hair was long and brushed into a barette, whisps carefully held back with lacquer and bobby pins. There was no make up, no jewelry, nothing to make her visible, memorable, worth being addressed or spoken to.<br/><br/>Before she left she washed her coffee cup,  her breakfast plate and knife and placed them neatly in a dish rack before watering the sole  other living occupant of the beige house at the end of the row of identical houses. The green plant gave no indication to acknowledge the watering and so she grabbed her black bag, her carefully folded paper bag, and a small umbrella and locked the door behind her.<br/><br/>The trip to work took  a twenty-seven minute train ride, an eight minute bus ride, and a three minute walk from there to the entry of the building where she worked. She had worked there for seven years, five months, three weeks, and two days. During those many trips no one had ever even noticed she existed. In fact at times she almost doubted it herself.<br/><br/>And so she stood, noticing that the train was more full now since a new warehouse had opened in the city and more people took this route.  She moved through the throng of men and a few women, and stood  in a corner, holding on to a pole, waiting for the completion of the next twenty-seven minutes.