My conspicuous experiments with life!!

Saturday, August 21, 2004

My dad's friend had come down to India and he spent a day in chennai. He is a north Indian basically, but has a mix of slangs as he has stayed almost in all Indian states and other countries. He does a lot of travelling..n by saying lot I mean really so much! He flies down from the gulf once a fortnight, and does a lot of inland travelling.
Naturally that day, topic centered around train journeys and generally, journeys to be more precise. He enjoyed talking about that. he went on and on....when we were kids, train journeys used to be a lot of fun . as the train starts the people in the compartment soon get introduced and they talk about something as though they were intimate friends from childhood. there would be some old people sitting inside who would want us to get down at some stations and fetch water etc. and very soon, the ambience would change..people would start discussing about anything and everything under the sun. the kids would start playing together. women would share their stories and common gossips would rise in. oldies would want to rest for a while....but today the way of living has changed. as soon as the train starts people just gallop in with heroism. and the moment the train starts, they would start playing a game in their phones or unwind the headphones of a walkman. they prefer to talk over mobile phones to somebody elsewhere rather than introducing themselves to the person next seat. and incase, people like me(him) voluntarily starts the introduction process, the conversation would hardly move on
Me: hello, I'm ----.
Other person: hello...excuse me, just a moment..:P
and he goes out with the mobile and does he speak something very important? no, not at all..the conversation would mostly be
"yeah..we'll discuss about that later! hope to meet you soon. take care.I'll call you back tomorrow. meanwhile leave me updated thro' SMS. bye. see you tomorrow!"

He had a funny way of explaining everything. Without hesitating for a minute, I'd get down at the stations to get anything for the co-passengers. But today when I ask my son to get a bottle of water..the immediate reply is "what the heck? don't you people get water bottles before the train starts? simply running around when the train stops...behave yourselves! we'll get a bottle of pepsi when the colawala comes.."
I simply enjoyed every minute of that uncle's stay here

..not to forget that he got me Danisa butter cookies and some chocolates.

I am going to ask appa to send only such interesting guests hereafter

Posted by sree at 3:43:00 pm
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