TRAVELLING IN AN OVER CROWED BUS

TRAVELLING IN AN OVER CROWED BUS

 

            Traveling by bus is not an enjoyable experience and I prefer traveling by my car. I never travel in an over-crowded bus. It is only an ordeal to enter an over crowded bus but to buy your ticket, maintain vertical posture and alight at your destination without injury to your limbs or property is also a feat.

 

            Once I was standing at the head of the queue and did not enter as the bust was over-crowded, when a friend came tearing from the rear. He almost forced me to board the bus telling me not worry as somebody would give seats to us.

 

            Inside the bus, it was like the plight of packed sardines which try to get out of the tin from its bottom. I had to move from the entrance to the exit to buy my ticket and that too in a bus which was not just packed to capacity but was not even meant for carrying standing passengers. In the process, many boots stepped on my shoes and I too trod on many boots.

 

            Twice I found myself in a very uncomfortable position. Once, because a co-passenger tried to relieve his suffering by smoking, but I was unable to bear the smoke, and I moved away quickly. Believe me, it was not so easy. From the frying pan to the fire was never truer than in this case. I found myself next to a stinking man and I moved again.

 

            Fortunately my friend's prediction came true. A thorough young perfect gentleman offered me his seat near the window. My misery came to an end but I resolved never again t travel by an over crowded bus.