Saturday, February 7, 2009

A local train journey...

I travel quite a lot these days in our local trains(my college being ner tambaram)...and this is one of my experiences in the last journey i had(around three weeks back) and i remembered it just now...It would have been another 40 min trip from tambaram to kodambakkam...but everything that disgusts me happened on this single trip...
First of all,it started with me getting onto a running train(really!and this was my first time and as the laws in physics would have it...i almost fell off due to inertia(atleast,that's wat i think it is!)
Wat's the big deal?Yeah,right,it didn't stop just there...
I g0ot a seat in facing the direction opposite to that of the train's and i would have puked(i have that problem) if I hadn't got the opposite seat in the next stayion...so far so good....There was this lady sitting next to me and she was eating a carrot....ok,that's her mouth...but once she was done with it,she just threw the remaining part under our seat!!!As if that wasn't enough,a few students got in at pallavaram... they were having lays(it always hasto do something with food ;))...they got the lasrt powder all over their hands and wanted to wash their hands...the could have got up an washed near the entrance but thy chose to lean all over me and pour the water out of their water bottles...when they realiosed that their efforts were futile,they chose to wipe their hands(as if they couldn't have decided that in the beginning itself)...the lady opposite me spat out of the window!! YUCK>...limits exceeded....
I decided it was time to get up from that place and stand near the entrance away from these people who got on my nerves!!I tell you,it really wasn't my day...There was a lady selling chikku and the lady next to me wanted to buy some(atleast wanted to buy...i thought)...but no.She wanted to taste as well!!!So she got the fruit from the vendor,got it squashed all over her hand,ate it,said it was nice nd sweet,and de3cided not to buy it on hearing the price!My God!She could have asked for the price even before tasting the fruit!As if this was not enough,she threw the seeds inside the train itself!!!I really wanted to yell at her-after all,she was standing next to the entrance!Then there was this lady who got in at the mambalam station.She hd her hands full of shopping bags and was balancing a cup of some masala sundal or something...Of all the places she could have taken in that compartment,she came and stood besi9de me,pressed between two of us (probably for balance) and was eating away happily...and wat a smell! I can't stand the smell of garlic taht was quite raw...and here she was...Thankfully,Kodambakkam was the next station-I got down,now I,ve decided to give the otyher compartments a try and avoid the ladies compartment next time.....I just want to check if even males can be like that!!

2 comments:

Rahmaniac said...

good post.:)

and i travel by train daily too, and the situation is more or less the same in the general compartments too. maybe 1st class wud be better.

would like to exchange links. do comment on my blog too.

srinath.

Jam said...

welcome to India :)