Preeti's post excited me to write something about the string of train journeys I had to take off late and have been grumbling about them till date.
With very high hopes and faith in the omnipotent God , I brave the unruly mob of people crowded in front of the reservation charts , only to be provided with the fact that people around are m46, f41, m12, m76, f13, watever !
Okay, now lets say the train has started moving, the coolies have said byebye. Here comes the time, when you actually notice the kind of people with whom you are going to spend the next 24 hours of your life.
1. the sleepy kinds-The very first thing they do after boarding the train is to eye the upper berths.Even if they are not allotted the upper berth , they would coax the fellow passengers for an exchange offer and would immediately doze off after getting up.
2.The most noisy group in the train non arguably is the mother-kid combo-This section can be further classified:
i)The mother of an infant- they would run to the loo a billion times, cleaning utensils, washing clothes, to bathe the kid, to wash his face, to brush his teeth , to change his clothes, then would play snakes and ladder and so on!
ii)The mother of kids in the age group of 10-14--"you have an exam na? after the school reopens? wait, let me , take out your books for you to study, i've kept them handy"
"No mommm, please I will look out of the window for now"
"Nooo, you are not a kid anymore, there's nothing to look out of the window, its quite dark"
"yeah, mom, thats what I like, the lights glowing with darkness all around, mom are those will-o-wisp?"
"Shut up, study, here's your book".
3.Then there will be some men who would leave all the places in the train and find the space before the loos the most comfortable. And you would have to say "excuse me" a thousand times to get it registered in them.
4.This kind of people really gets on my nerves-they need to change clothes on the train , that too in full public glare. Men and women, in only a one night journey can't you really sleep in whatever you are?
And from Delhi , we took the Rajdhani. More than anything else its known as the train which serves you food on board.
So, 30 mins into the journey, a kid break the silence "Papa you, told they will serve us chocolates..when?"
I'll hate Rajdhani for serving me apple juice 4 times.
Self Appraisal
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23 comments:
nice one there :) loved point #2. given a chance I can spend my whole life in a single apparel. yeah, I ahte to bath, i hate water, I hate clothes,washing ironing drying and folding. yeeks :)
hey! nice one. u shud write more on this.. :P
i hate apple juice ( it tastes ughh & looks like beer & if it's some bad company ka maal then it looks like pi**)!! & rajdhani food isn't good any more :( :(
no jwm this time either i guess our life isn't meant for it *sigh*
ty for dropping by my blog :)
**4.This kind of people really gets on my nerves-they need to change clothes on the train , that too in full public glare
do ppl really do that on trains? LOL!
Keshi.
but ppl love Rajdhani for the same reason.
Ohh, rajdhani, how I madly love that train, even if it tried to make us live upon chips and bread for one whole day. But we got mango juice so all was forgiven.
The mother infant combo also has the horrible part of the infant bawling its head out and te mother trying to console it. At 3a.m. in the night, all you really dream of is throwing the infant out of a moving train.
Hate them for serving apple juice?
Ok, CLEARLY, you have never travelled by normal mail trains.
2nd class, please.
Haha!!
And what category do you fall in?
i love train travelling...yea literally...even Indian trains!!! U get to knw new ppl and observe them......I guess diff perspectives!
hahahaha o my! really... you brought back my rajdhani trip to the rajdhani.... my my what fanfare but hate those greedy people who ask for double of everything just because they are free
Lol.. But i lik Apple juice! If preti had mentioned it in lighter side you have expressed your dislikings!! Interesting!!!
LOL! OMG! Do they really change clothes in public view???????
:) ha ha ha ha.
Actually I had my share of such experience during my college days, we used to board The Delhi-Kala mail.
Bongs !!! , there are certain things which are pretty , idiosyncratic. Specially that, changing clothes and using loo part . The decibel level that they are able to produce and an air that they know every thing. The most curious ones used to ask me weather I am a Bengali, and where I study . Some how they always made my small college an NIIT centre and me look like a fool who travelled so far to take admission in one such a moronic place.
Later when ever some one asked me such questions I told them I am from B-com pass course from bhabanipur college .
I am very much a Bong ..but believe me , I was blessed to be part of an institution that seduced me out of sectarian and regional instincts .
I learned more than academics there.
**I appended this part in case you think I am a pseudo. I love my place very much and more than proud to be a Bengali .
@preeti
you hate clothes ? !! :P
yeah, I get your point. its like, when you don't have any option, you should refrain yourself from doing everyday stuffs
@jagjit
Thank you :)
@ truthful
yes, it isn't in my kismat :(
@ keshi and Mac
yes, those kind of species exist
and if you ask, they move around wearing towels and then change..watever!
@wian
yeah, barring the apple juice, food was what kept people busy
@ad libber
yeah, i too loved the first half of the journey, when they said they are running at 120km/hr...then during midnight the engine malfunctioned and got replaced by some non rajdhani one...and rajdhani without its engine is no rajdhani...and started running like a bullock-cart and reached some 4 hrs late and for that we got another round of apple juice :(
@me.
haven't been that lucky!
@solitaire
No category was worth falling into!
its fun being the observer!
@meghna
yeah, definitely , you get to watch different people!
@phoenix
asking for more?? people in my proximity were quite civilised, didn't even ask for alternatives
@karthik
its for you people that they take it for granted that rest of the mankind likes it too!!
Thanks for dropping by!
@
tyro
yeah, some do possess kind of laid back attitude and some think 'i m the king'
but creating hulla in train is not a bong monoply ...every region has its own way!
**they move around wearing towels and then change..
no u r kidding me right!!!
Keshi.
ohh
i love train journeys...
they are always so full of life...
@keshi
nooo!
@a-fool-such-as-i
yeah, right
Thanks for dropping by
Now this is something the-great-Indian-Railways could take a cue or two from: A girl cribbing about not getting *m20* in her bay, while for ages we *m20* guys have been discussing for ages about when was the last time a beautiful girl of the same age group landed in the same bay as us.
Does the-great-Indian-Railways play dice with us?
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