My friend R's marriage is on June 10th and we (C,V,N,J bunch of four from Chennai) have booked tickets up and down - Howrah Mail & Bhubaneswar Express months back.
As days passed ,as journey date (June 9th) came nearby; discussion started about journey - "hey its Howrah @23:45 pm ,we can go आराम से "
On June 9th morning, we have selected resend SMS and surprised to find the departure time @21:10. Its Bhubaneswar Express and not Howrah🙆🙆🙆🙆.
V: "Its Friday, traffic will be in peak"
N: "I have a call till 6 pm"
C: "I will start @19:30"
V: "👊U have to be in room(PTC) by 19:30"
I (C) have started from Siruseri and got a call @19:20.
N: "Where are you?"
C: "AGS"
N: "Come back ,I am at sipcot bustop"
C: "😠I cant come into that traffic again. Come by bus"
We reached Tharamani MRTS and train just came. Its a long walk from bike parking to station. Next train shows @20:35 and reaches Central by 21:02. (UTS app came in handy to skip the queue at counter ).
It came @20:37 and we were tracking our journey minute by minute. Its 20:58 and station is Chepauk.
N: "To avoid tension I have slowed down my watch to ten minutes☺"
Don't know whether to call it positive thinking or ......
V: "Google prediction platform 10"
21:02 - Chintadripet
21:06 - Park town.
Like athletes who start the race at shot of a gun, we ran. Of course everyone of us gave up and resumed the run again to reach the Central station entry gate by 21:11. The big red digits just got changed from 11 to 12. We skipped the bag scan ,four security guards around but they did not say a word.
Reached platform 10 just to found out its going to Ahmadabad 😖. Then came the announcement "Train no:12829 is about to depart from platform no:4". Resumed our saga and reached platform 4. To our left is a train which says नई दिल्ली and to our right its train no 12369 😶. Asked a guard and he pointed a track in between our left and right perceptions and said "it will come".
Slowly a beam of light entered the track ,its our 12829 Bhuba and its 21:15 😀.
Enjoyed the delicacies of food varieties ranging from pav bhaji (snacks) to fruit salad (desserts) 😋.
Its June 11, we boarded Howrah; enjoying the beautiful monsoon, reading beautiful book bought by J 'who will cry when you die' which remembered many things; had mouth-watering fish curry prepared by N's mom and all time famous Haleem for dinner @Tenali.
There was a bitter altercation regarding berth @ 21:20.
TTE had allocated a berth for a girl with RAC in evening and had left. In the night when she had occupied the berth, there had been an argument -
"It is our confirmed berth ,get down."
When co-passenger supporting the girl asked those who are arguing to show their ticket, they got angry- "Who are you to ask? Are you TT? Go and check the chart sticked outside the train."
Girl has compromised and coincidentally N took a decision to attend his friend's marriage and got down @Tenali. We offered our berth to her, first she did not believe (our face value ☺)but when we conversed and elaborated she accepted and felt thankful.
As days passed ,as journey date (June 9th) came nearby; discussion started about journey - "hey its Howrah @23:45 pm ,we can go आराम से "
On June 9th morning, we have selected resend SMS and surprised to find the departure time @21:10. Its Bhubaneswar Express and not Howrah🙆🙆🙆🙆.
V: "Its Friday, traffic will be in peak"
N: "I have a call till 6 pm"
C: "I will start @19:30"
V: "👊U have to be in room(PTC) by 19:30"
I (C) have started from Siruseri and got a call @19:20.
N: "Where are you?"
C: "AGS"
N: "Come back ,I am at sipcot bustop"
C: "😠I cant come into that traffic again. Come by bus"
We reached Tharamani MRTS and train just came. Its a long walk from bike parking to station. Next train shows @20:35 and reaches Central by 21:02. (UTS app came in handy to skip the queue at counter ).
It came @20:37 and we were tracking our journey minute by minute. Its 20:58 and station is Chepauk.
N: "To avoid tension I have slowed down my watch to ten minutes☺"
Don't know whether to call it positive thinking or ......
V: "Google prediction platform 10"
21:02 - Chintadripet
21:06 - Park town.
Like athletes who start the race at shot of a gun, we ran. Of course everyone of us gave up and resumed the run again to reach the Central station entry gate by 21:11. The big red digits just got changed from 11 to 12. We skipped the bag scan ,four security guards around but they did not say a word.
Reached platform 10 just to found out its going to Ahmadabad 😖. Then came the announcement "Train no:12829 is about to depart from platform no:4". Resumed our saga and reached platform 4. To our left is a train which says नई दिल्ली and to our right its train no 12369 😶. Asked a guard and he pointed a track in between our left and right perceptions and said "it will come".
Slowly a beam of light entered the track ,its our 12829 Bhuba and its 21:15 😀.
Enjoyed the delicacies of food varieties ranging from pav bhaji (snacks) to fruit salad (desserts) 😋.
Its June 11, we boarded Howrah; enjoying the beautiful monsoon, reading beautiful book bought by J 'who will cry when you die' which remembered many things; had mouth-watering fish curry prepared by N's mom and all time famous Haleem for dinner @Tenali.
There was a bitter altercation regarding berth @ 21:20.
TTE had allocated a berth for a girl with RAC in evening and had left. In the night when she had occupied the berth, there had been an argument -
"It is our confirmed berth ,get down."
When co-passenger supporting the girl asked those who are arguing to show their ticket, they got angry- "Who are you to ask? Are you TT? Go and check the chart sticked outside the train."
Girl has compromised and coincidentally N took a decision to attend his friend's marriage and got down @Tenali. We offered our berth to her, first she did not believe (our face value ☺)but when we conversed and elaborated she accepted and felt thankful.
