MUMBAI TRAINS...THE BLOOD OF
MUMBAI
Yeh hai mumbai meri jaan...
The megapolis of Mumbai holds many a challenge for the 'rookie' who lands here
unaware of the hurdles and challenges that he or she might have to face.
A recent incident saw one such helpless victim falling prey to the over
enthusiastic nature of Bombay's local train commuters....keep reading this
comedy of errors by clicking on the next
line this posting submitted by SRii jaswant mehta
of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada ....
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Our hero, a man from Pune, wanted to go to Matunga, but as luck and trains would
have it, boarded a fast train not halting at his destination. He panicked on
realizing his mistake but by then the local had started moving.
On seeing his plight, a sympathetic co-passenger decided to come to his rescue.
It seemed that he had been commuting by that particular train (6:03 pm Kasara
Fast) for the past 6 years and had noticed that the train always slowed down
just before Matunga station and crawled at a snail's pace while passing through
it. He told the man to jump out of the running train as it slowed down and that
with a little bit of fleet-footedness, he would make it safely on terra firma.
However, knowing the man's inexperience, he added some words of caution: "Keep
running the moment you jump or you'll fall. Just keep running." He stressed the
word "running" lest the man not know the laws of motion. The train did slow down
just before Matunga station and at the prompting of his mentor, our hero jumped
out of the train and started running as if all hell had broken loose. What he
didn't realize, of course, was that he was running parallel to the train instead
of running away from it.
Meanwhile, the train slowed down further, so that the man was running faster
than the train. In the process, he reached the door of the next compartment and
the footboard commuters there pulled him in thinking he was trying to board the
train! To his agony, the train picked up speed and sped past Matunga and his new
co-passengers started to congratulate him on how lucky he had been, until he
told them that they had actually undone what he had done with great difficulty.
Those standing at the door of his "ex-compartment" had witnessed the whole drama
and just couldn't stop laughing at the poor man's situation, while he grinned
sheepishly.
Yeh hai mumbai meri jaan...
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