A friend calls you. He says he wants to tell you about how he met the woman of his dreams at the train station. You can’t wait to hear. You meet for coffee. You sit down. “Well?”. He tells you how he took a long shower that morning, how he combed his hair, how he ate a bagel with jelly and butter, (or, no, it was cream cheese), how he grabbed his keys, got in his car, drove to the station… “Well???”
If the follow-up is not absolutely necessary to the actual story, then skip it. Don’t write about the process of your character getting to the train station. Just be there.
