A blog after a long time doesn't mean that I was busy, just that I didn't get topics ;-).
I travel more these days, but the destination and transport remains the same. Yes, its madurai and the train is tuticorin express. I happen to see a lot of interesting things while travelling and yes, the blog is about that.
Panic passengers
These are the kind of passengers who are always in panic even when train comes 30 minutes late. Most of them would be "rules sigamani"s ;-).. as soon as the train comes, they get into the nearest entrance of their coach, even when the berth is at the other end. The result is, Chaos.
Berth hoppers
These are the kind of passengers who never get near-by-near berths for group. Once a gang of youngsters were in same cabin as mine. All were colleagues, making a trip to madurai. One guy asked in tamil, "engalle oruthanukku next coach vizhunthirukku, if you don't mind, neenga antha next coachukku poga mudiyuma?".. I said, "I mind, and Sorry". I usually don't like transferring, especially not to next coach. After sometime, another guy from the same guy, asked for the same. But this time in English. A BIG NO this time.
Last century friends
The best part of travelling we will get a chance to meet our old friends. I have met many of my such friends, some did nursery with me, some school mates. Last week, a guy with big spectacles, and thick moustache approached me..
"Hey krishna ram.. how r u? (actually he asked in sourashtra), mee aswin ra...".
Actually I was not able to recognize him.. but tried to pretend.. asked him "SPVM school mate?"...
he replied, "no da, TVS lakshmi"..
"oh ok, after noon batchaa?"..
this time he got angry over me... "no da, forenoon session, XII A, your class mate... and you dont remember me..." and walked away. Even after 5 mins I was not able to recollect, my bad memory.. Later I walked to him and apologized for this bad brain, and made a general talk.
A different part of my pleasant trips.
LKG school mates
I have seen couples who talk, talk, talk... for hours. I don't understand what do they talk for such a long time... (is that why I'm still single, huh?). For couples, it made little sense to me. I came across a case which was not understandable at all :-(..
Once in our cabin, a girl was sitting, in the side lower berth. (Three of us were travelling). In the next cabin a guy was standing talking to TTE, ticket checker. After the TTE gone, he just looked back at the side lower berth. He started giving talk to the girl, it all started like... "hey you are ** so and so ** studied in *** school, LKG right?"
My friend was keen listening to this. later we were teasing their conversations (aming ourselves), and went for sleep. My friend woke up at 3 AM for peeing... and was shocked to see both of them talking again. Even though I didn't understand the rational, I really appreciated their talkative nature, with their only commonness being LKG school mates.
Signing off for now.
