Never flirt with time, it can always play us out of the game anytime, and it showed.
Here is how it went:
Friday brings different thoughts to different people. Some think of Lakshmi pooje, some of the namaz, some of the the weekend booze and some of the weekend train to Mysore. There are more, but lets keep it out of scope.
There are two trains to Mysoor in the evening: 6:15 and 6:45(passenger). The passenger train inline with its name leaves late and gives us a chance to get on, sometimes till 7:10.
Infact, It all started with a bug at office. I was patting myself after a good analysis of it but it was already 6:45. With one train already gone, the plan was that I would anyway check for the train and then the bus. A graceful auto-driver dropped me at the station with a prediction : "All traffic in Benglur will come to a stop in 2 years". Hoping against hope, by the time I could reach the 7th platform, the passenger train had started chugging along. I could have jumped over the platform, over a track and boarded it, but it wasnt really worth it, there wasnt anyone waiting for me in the train and afterall,this was not a movie either.
People turn back and look at you like an alien when you talk things about work outside the workplace. I couldn't help it as I got a call enquiring about the same bug, but this time, the bug didn't look interesting anymore.
As i hastily ran to the KSRTC bus stand, the Volvo to Mysoor was jeering at me while she went past. Couldn't she wait for a minute longer? Anyway, being late is not new to me, there have been bigger misses.
The Mysooru mallige bus waiting and it took me in. I usually don't prefer this as it used to stifle my legs earlier, but the buses have modernised a bit, making it easier now. It takes four hours instead of the normal three by train, but it makes it all the more longer when a guy sitting next to you would talk for long with his girlfriend and that too about weekend, movies etc. Even I got a call! but a wrong number at that. But the vada at Maddur bus stand was good.
The bus reached its home at 11:10, letting me hop on to an auto, but as if its not enough, the engine of the auto got seized due to no oil. The engine would have not started if not some 30ml oil left with another auto. After having got home, if feels as if it is not a big deal as it is made out to be :). But i needed to pour it on somebody, who else but to a blog would simply gulp everything of what I say without a word against me.
9 comments:
blog sometimes speak to .. well itz actually others .. thru comments !!
well .. things go wrong sometimes .. but few times .. several things go wrong in a sequence as if someone was really planning to screw up things !!
hehehe...i travel to mysore every week..i can write chronicles about my experiences..i keep meeting weirdos..
Getting a seat in the 3.45 train on the sunday Tanjavur is an achievement by itself!
But the view on the way..particularly during monsoon makes it all worthwhile..don't you think so?
And i forgot to add..have you noticed the cockroaches on the 6.45 train?I took that train only once..and the experience was so weird..it was almost surreal!I am thinking of making a blog entry about that..but I guess it would sound too fantastic to be considered true!
Seat a ! I never get a seat nowadays...only balcony..but no shows :).
Best time I felt was the Saturday morning train, with few people and a beatiful sunrise! And the best part being Mandya!
Only cockroaches? there are mice too :)
In getting seats..being a gal helps;)
I took the train back to Blore at 6 yesterday..I love that time..where you get to see evening mature into dusk...and slowly slip into a dark night...Oh!my fav is always the Srirangapatnam bridge...and the paddy and sugarcane fields!
I like the way they shout"chaaaaya!" :D
PS:did you know that a son would get diabetes from his dad..but a daughter wouldn't?That's the train gossip for you!!I even heard a very rivetting story about a police officer who got drunk and slammed his vehicle!
I usually come by the same train too, have taken pictures of those as well. But this time, the saturday 6 train was much more quiet.
How about the guy who gets sooper churmuri? 'Ellaroo churmuri tinni'?? I wait for him everytime!
I love reading your posts..I seem to relate to them so easily. :)
I miss those weekend trip to mysore :(.
i love mysore ,i don't want go any where.if go any where outside mysore i will be eger to return to mysore as soon as possible.
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