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Railways
in Mumbai observe a Mega Block every Sunday, yesterday was one such Sunday and I
had to go to Dombivali. I rushed my way to the station to find that the fast
train was not due in the next half hour and the slow train was supposed to
arrive in 5mins in which time I had to go and get my ticket and then again go
to the platform and walk down half the platform to reach the Ladies
compartment, after somehow managing to do all this is get to the platform only
to find myself surrounded with at least 50 other ladies, which automatically
made me nervous thinking if I’ll get a place to sit. So as I was waiting for
the train to come I noticed the lady standing next to me, she should be
somewhere around the age of 26 – 28 (I know I called her “lady” above but
something about her tell me that “girl” is not the word for her) and apparently
from the conversation she was having on her phone I concluded that she was
single. So she was not very pretty, a lil bit on the plum side and had an aura
of a very strict person but very fair, and her conversation on the phone was
something like this –
-
Aab mein toh tumhari friend ho sakti
hoon, girlfriend nahi. ( Now I can be your friend, but not your girlfriend.)
( I figure the person on the other
side asked her why she can’t be his girlfriend)
-
Tum mujhe dekhoge toh daar jaaoge,
mein dikhti hi itni bhayanak hoon. ( if you see me, you will get scared. I look
like a devil.)
To which I thought, why is she doing
that? I mean ya she is a bit plump but that doesn’t mean she looks like bhayanak,
maybe she just doesn’t want to over sell herself or else when they two actually
meet the date may not end on a good note as the guy will be expecting something
better.
-
Acha chalo, abhi train aayegi… mein
tumhe raat ko call karti hoon, aur suno ache se rehna, aapna khayal rakhna. (
okay, I’ll hang up now the train is about to come. I’ll call you in the evening
and be good and take care.)
By the time she hung up I had a proper picture of her
in my mind, I figured she should be somewhat rude and desperate to get married
soon ( going by her conversation )
The train came and we got in, there was no place to
sit and we both were again standing next to each other. She started asking
everyone who were sitting where they were going to get down, I thought she was
asking for herself. But then suddenly she turns to me and tells me, this lady
is going to get down after 2 stations you sit there then she fixes one seat for
herself and then she turns to other
people around her and starts making seats available for other people around. This
was something which took me by surprise. Generally people are after each other’s
life in a local train and never does something like this happen. The most people
do is give their seat to an elder person or tell the people standing to sit in
their place after they get down. But actually arranging for seats for other
people, hell no!
I took
a double take on my picture of her, I imagined her rude and strict but she
turned out to be sweet and helpful.
Guess
I should stop making assumptions without actually knowing a person. There are
so many people we meet in our daily life’s after all, should be difficult to
guess their character in a single meeting.
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:) Mumbai trains :)
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