's'train no: 7022-- Da'r'kshin 'v'express

PART TWO

(part one -- prev post)

After that, we beseeched and told the tc that we were prepared to shell out a few extra bucks if he could show us a way out…we meant a “sweetener”. He candidly asked us to get off at the subsequent station or pay money for a fresh ticket. We had no other alternative except buying a fresh ticket, and since it was not love tht cud get us tickets, ….we had 2 put in money...U must be thinking thts so damn obvious… well it wasn’t obvi when we shopped 4 a Taj mahal repli nor was it obvious wen we watched movies, had delicious food n comfortable place to stay in..or buy loads of dvd’s in the chorbazaar …bottom line..no money ..no journey…but ..but..lucky tht we were..(the only day in my life..i cud sense luck..otherwise it sucks like my blog..:D) had enuf left jussss to get a sleeper clas ticket.


N  to  get tht one’s gotta go al the way to the sleeper n pursue the tc until he concedes…well tc ko pursue karna to ham par chod do..but the sleeper was past few bogies n a pantry car n the link was shut..so the only way out was to get off here n get in there …


ALL IN TWO MINUTES

 Coz …wen askd how long  the train would stop in the next station, the tc replied   “ shaayad do minute ya usse bhi kam”. We were dumb struck ,how on earth wud an 80 yr old sick granny walk so far in 2 min.??!!..We pleaded the tc to let us  get down at a main station to make it ezy for  our granny .Alas!  Our requests were futile and the only go was to get her to cross those bogies in TWO MINUTES . Now wat??


Next station arrived and I immediately ran with the bags (2 bags n 2 cases) into the sleeper section, snehith was helping granny to walk. By hook and eye, we made it within those couple o minutes. The train dint start n fortunately the tc was in the same bogie we got in, we explained our sad state of affairs. Then came another bouncer…the tc said “I can give u a new ticket but u gotta have a general ticket first” we askd him as to  wh er the hell can we get tht ticket wen the train is bout to leave?? He said “ im sorry but u must have it to get a fresh ticket”. Without uttering a word, snehith ran onto the platform to get the general ticket. …The train was on the last platform and snehith had to go to the primary platform by crossing an over bridge to get the general ticket. At that juncture, my heart shrunk, my legs were wobbling coz the train wud start anytime and if he misses?? Gosh!! Now I had to do something…nything…(sensible ofcourse) I askd granny to get off the train coz if snehith missed , we wud go astray. We both got off again and snehith as no wher visible. The green flag waved and the train shot off its smoke. I looked up at the heavens and wen I looked down I saw snehith running towards us. With no more thots I helped granny to get in. snehith n I boarded jus wen the train started. Snehith was panting like hell. We sat next to the tc to wind up the lingering paperwork. The tc, Saala then asked for a sweetener to confirm our berths….aaarrgghhh!! We had no more nerves to fight it out…n so we gave him his carrot.


Phew!!! And so our 's'train in the “da(r)k”shin ‘v’express came to an end.

PS: The guy is Durga Prasad…the tc from Delhi to Jhansi of Dakshin express. Media n police!! Pls check this man.