Monday, July 09, 2007

Exercise Care while entraining and detraining

The southern railways passenger train was jostling and turning and finally reaching its destination- Chennai Beach Station. No whistles heard because it was just one of those passenger trains that unload their office-going crowd every 7 minutes and load office-going crowd to Tambaram station. The train was beaming at the Green Signal given to it as it was about to touch the beach station. The passengers woke up with a jolt after their short nap. There was this gal in a khadi kurta, making those wild faces because it was a Monday morning. Not even bothering to grin at her co-passengers. She was relieved that her destination had been reached, but was already moarning the walk up the overhead bridge to her workplace. She reached for the door and was getting too impatient to walk to the bridge. As soon as she spotted the train passing the overhead bridge, she placed her foot out of the train and didn’t manage to place both her feet at once. Thug and there she landed like a frog on the platform. Hands outstretched for help. Bag strewn away. Spectacles out of her nose and thrown at a distance. As she came to realize what had happened , she thought “ how come those college fellas that get out of a moving train never ever manage to fall “ or even “ how come Rajinikant doesn’t slip a step when he does one of his jumps from one train to another”. Then she came to her senses, picked herself up and rushed to the overhead bridge acting as though she was in a real hurry atleast to justify her actions to those worried faces. Sigh, Bad start to a mundane Monday.

P.S: The girl under reference is me – the gymnastics trying , early getting up , internship going, train traveling woman.
P.P.S 1 : Next time, I shall adhere to the rule on the board in the entrance of every compartment – “ Please do exercise care while entraining and detraining”
P.P.S 2: I shall never try mimicking those college going fellas. Never. Actions come with practice , yes, but I shall not risk a fall again. Anyway, you can’t experiment this with the MRTs :P

9 comments:

Confused Soul said...

Use your advice! :)

Quarter Past Seven said...

Aren't trains the best and the most humorous pools of stories from real life :D

Mithr said...

@ confused soul

I didn't quite get you..

@bart simpson

VERY... :D:D It's the part you can relate to the most

Confused Soul said...

Haha.. it's a line from Kite Runner.. :P 'It'll do you good to use your own advice'.. Got it now? U yourself are telling people to execise caution.. so I'm saying the same thing - be careful! So that's using your own advice.. :P

Aah, random comment, ignore it :P

Mithr said...

ahan. :) Alright. I am waiting to read this book. Shall lay my hands on it soon

Anonymous said...

Thats why you must not be sincere to your intern companies.. Dont go la!

Preetha said...

random crap observation: in sivaji climax... the villain can "fly" as well as super star! try that next.. looking 4wrd 2 ur next post abt it!

Priyanka said...

what the hell! are you ok?

Archun said...

wow!! hope you're okay..
but I must admit - what a series of thoughts!!! I guess therez too much Superstar hype arnd..hehe..
I could totally relate to only 1 line - she rushed to the overhead bridge acting as though she was in a real hurry at least to justify her actions.. - I'm pretty clumsy and whenever I slip or fall..thatz exactly what I do!