This is one of those very-extraordinary-interjecting-into-the-very-ordinary stories – which is not necessarily a bad thing. It’s a fine opening which has potential to spin off into an interesting story.
Not badly written either – the ennui is very well described in the first paragraph, though things get a bit loose from ‘plain’ onwards (and not sure why that word is there?). Also, your tenses are a bit uncertain, switching from past to present to past – easily fixable, just needs a bit of a clean up.
JonB