My train journey - A melting pot of attitudes

C10- Seat no. 50 was like this peek into what we call ''various attitudes''. Indeed very interesting helping me bide the 4 hours I was to en route Delhi from Chandigarh last evening. Having both the seats next to me vacant, I was in a position to relax and just observe with a soup-stick in my mouth intermittently.. ah! this is life... :). A bunch of boys and girls, back from a vacation in Himachal were seemingly excited and exuberant! The girl, the only one in 4 boys was busy trying to justify why some boys are so not worth it- they don't know where to draw the line...blah blah and she suddenly yells!!!Ooops!!! the co-passengers thought. Nah! was not as bad as it seemed, she only overreacted to her seat being taken by one of her mates while she was away to the restroom...!! Chhheeee. Then there were these two little girls who were busy with their hand tapping games and several riddles -- OK here is one... "Which bank has no money???""... the answer is.."A river bank".. Ha ha! well, i can laugh at it now or am i actually laughing at my own self albeit in retrospect. Then was this man, who had "Engineer" written all over his face, some 30 odd years into his life & the script of his frequent phone calls only re-iterated his profession. Then comes out the laptop and ear plugs into his ears!.. While I continued to look outside my window spotting the scattered lit bulbs between the darkness...I suddenly heard these bouts of laughter...haa haa, hoo hoo, hee hee... wondered what happened.. he was watching a comic flick and apparently did not realize his decibels because of the ear plugs. LOL. The couple behind me.. OK! So they had a new cell phone and a Nokia one.. and next time you want to know how many ring tones there are in it, and to rate them..pls ask me!! Phew, that was soo irritating :(. Taking the cake, were two ladies who actually totally dampened my mood... two sisters, about 50 years of age..and DAMN! refused to lift their mother's luggage who was accompanying them... and to top that showed absolutely no respect for age or relations in their communication...anyways, I can only observe. Sept, 29 '07