Sunday, July 24, 2005

Rush Hour

Aoa people. On ThursdayI had, what I would say, the worst experience of my life of travelling in a bus. Here is how the story goes [ the speed of "the bus" is very very slow unless I say so ].
I got on "the bus" from Cantt Station. It took "the bus" 90 minutes to get from Cantt to Saddar. "The bus" was going so slow that if it had gone any slower it would have been going in reverse. This is not it. Read on.
Now to shed some light on the atmosphere / environment of "the bus". "The bus" was non-AC. Maybe ten or twelve people were asleep. Two different mobiles were ringing continuously, one was of the guy who was asleep and other of the person who really wanted to talk very loudly. "The bus" was as crowded as it could be, but strangely the conductor managed to push more people into "the bus". Everyone was sweating so much that, if I didn't know better, I would have been sure that it was raining. Then as if things couldn't get any worse, two babies started crying and well you can imagine what I felt with all that noise plus the noise of the traffic. This is not it. Read on.
As "the bus" crossed Saddar, it picked up speed (meaning that now it was moving). After 15 more minutes, the conductor announces that this bus would go no further than where it was and everyone should get off. I didn't ask why coz those who did didn't get an answer. Now I'm standing in the middle of what I would call nowhere. I don't know which bus goes from here to my place coz "the bus" took a different route due to traffic jams. This is still not it. Read on.
Somehow I got into a bus which took me to another place where I got into another bus which finally got me to my place.
The journey took about three and a half hours. Three and a half hours wasted in a bus ride that takes 45 to 60 minutes under normal conditions. This extreme case happened to me for the first time. I'm sure many of you would have been in similiar situations. So share your worst experience of a bus ride.

PS: I know this is another post on buses but what can I say. I'm travelling a lot these days.

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