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My favourite song by ABBA is called The Day Before You Came. I’ve loved it for years but have only just noticed a real inconsistency in the story the lyrics tell...
The song begins, “I must’ve left my house at 8, because I always do”. A later line in verse one says “I must’ve made my desk around a quarter after 9”...
That means our narrator’s morning commute takes an hour and a quarter from door to door...
Later in the song, we get the lines, “At 5 I must’ve left”, and later still, “I must’ve opened my front door at eight o’ clock or so.
Now, that means a return commute of three hours, almost 3 times the length of the outward trip. Even allowing for the added time to “Stop along the way to buy some Chinese food to go”, that seems incongruous at best.
I don’t imagine public transport in Sweden is so unreliable as to account for the discrepancy. There again, maybe I’ve spent far too much time picking apart a simple pop song where the timeframe was chosen because it rhymes and scans properly. 
