As if my 1st of June ’07 wasn’t complete by the evening.. the worst was yet to come. In the previous post I mentioned whatever happened till the evening of that day.. here is some more drama from that day… and as people say.. people do enjoy at others ill-fate so does I hope the readers of this blog too, coz its kinda funny as well.. anyway I’d rather let you decide.
I went out for station around 6:30PM , and there were signs that things weren’t gonna be smooth for me… mostly I had this sort of intuition and also coz of the fact that as soon as I boarded the auto, one of my friends called me and said ki uski book mere room mein reh gayi hain and woh jiski hain woh abhi use lene aa raha hain .. but I expressed my inability and thankfully he understood. And en-route to station in the auto I was on sms chat with someone throughout. Amongst all this, I reached the station at 7:10, had enough of time.. or so I thought coz I saw the train’s departure timing as 7:35… good enough! I was at paharganj side and I still wonder why with that kind luggage… I ambled right till the far-end to ajmeri gate side.. may be coz I wanted to figure out the platform no. of the train.. How intelligent of me ehh.. whatever!! But this didn’t help in my purpose.. so I came back platform 1 coz then I thought I’d rather ask enquiry, as the coolies were way too uppity to grant me my innocuous plea. Nearby enquiry, I saw this pretty lady asking about the same train as me with one of the rather amiable senile coolie and I overheard that it was supposed to come at platform 10.. then why to waste my energy in queuing up in front of enquiry office and disturbing that gentleman. So I ran to platform ten once again, more in the hope of seeing that lady in the red than catching the train! But unfortunately couldn’t get her second glimpse again:-(, anyway.. that’s not what the evening is all about!
So I landed up on platform 10 again.. only to find this guy waiting for me, more a like a typical bollywood masala movie, the only difference being that he was but He… Alas!:-( But then, we were supposed to talk, coz we both were undergoing the same torture.. and haplessly enough, the guy was a real cheap.. not at all of my type. The funniest part was soon after he realized that am a English speaking species-which I tried my best not to do in front of him- he too started with it. Thereafter, he spoke his every sentence twice, once in English and then again in hindi.. as if I cant understand English or whatever, doesn’t matter. He accompanied me almost 2 hours, after which I just wanted to get rid of him. And his departing was equally ridiculous. When he found his coach.. eh shook hands with me and said, “was nice meeting you” and in reply I said, ”nice meeting you too” , I generally greet people like this, and I am sure he heard it too despite that he said, “same here toh bol dete yaar” and I was really amazed with the amount of illiteracy prevalent in India among literates !
And then there was more to come, the train finally got cancelled at 10 o’clock.. when I had no other option but to take the auto once again.. with augmented night charges. And then, she called.. before that, papa called and was kind of mad at me… as if it was my fault that the train got cancelled.. which obviously I didn’t like.. and like every other normal human being, I got rid of my frustration at her, which by every standards is wrong .. but then ..I had no other option and I hope she should understand this as well.
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