The summer vacation ended in India recently
and I am sure most of you would have taken a vacation to either meet your
relatives or simply to explore new destinations.
Being one of the largest railway networks in
the world, the Indian railway carries more than 23 million passengers every day.
With so many people travelling from the train, we are bound to meet every type
of passenger during the journey. While every person has some bad traits, these
traits get highlighted during the train journey. Here is my list of the types
of irritating persons you will find in Indian Railways.
1. Gossiping Aunts.
These are the army of middle aged ladies who
gather around two opposite seats and cramp up together to gossip about each and
every person living on this planet. And you know what is the worst part, subconsciously
you get involved in their conversation and thus you get know some amazing facts
such as someone’s daughter eloping and someone’s son being sent to prison!!
While the ladies are not the only persons who
are the chatterbox, it’s the gentlemen as well!!!
This brings me to my next point.
2. Political Uncles.
These are the breed of men who survive on
newspaper. If you listen to their conversation properly, you will get to know
that the government is responsible for everything bad happening in our country.
They would blame government for each and every step they take and act as if
they have all solutions to the world’s gravest political issues. They pretend to
be the greatest diplomats, having the answer to problems such as world hunger
or even alien invasion!! But gets tongue
tied when you tell them to elaborate their ideas…..
3. Wailing babies.
We got men and we got women… then who is
missing? Babies! Now, I don’t want to sound rude, but babies have tough time
travelling in the train. They feel claustrophobic and really uneasy thus they
cry a lot. Now having full sympathies with them, I would like to highlight the
plight of fellow travellers . Nothing gets on nerves as bad as wailing babies.
Worst case scenario: a baby wailing during night!!! Last May I was travelling
with my aunt and my darling god daughter on a train from Ahmadabad to Mumbai.
She was only four months old and she was really uncomfortable during the
journey. She was very fussy and the only thing which soothed her? The lullaby
“hush little baby”. I and my aunt sang almost half of the journey, making the
fellow passengers learning the lines of the lullaby by heart!!!!
4. Mr. /Ms. Theater
They carry with them their latest
tab/laptop/mobile/phablet (did I miss something?). But they intentionally leave
behind their head phones, because their sole intention is to entertain the
whole compartment. They put on the latest Bollywood movie they have (which they
got by illegally downloading from internet or from a friend who illegally
downloads them) and enjoys it shamelessly. While you try a lot to distract
yourself from the corny lines said by one of the Khans of Bollywood, you still
get involved in the movie, glancing on the screen from time to time. Then
Mr./Ms. Theater suddenly gets tired and
all sleepy and without any warning, turn off their gizmos and goes to sleep,
leaving you wondering about the climax of the movie!!!
Oh and wait until they wake up and put on some
Honey Singh’s rap.
5. The chit chat initiators.
They are people who get easily bored and long
distance journey is sort of nightmare for them. Though they do not qualify as
gossip mongers, but they are still interested in knowing all the mundane
details of their fellow passengers. I don’t know want to sound rude, a friendly
banter in a long journey is ok I guess, but introverts like me don’t like it at
all!! And yeah! Wait until they bore you
to death by the story of their own miserable life!!
6. The litterers.
These are the people who are solely
responsible for keeping our trains so dirty. Almost everyone have come across a
compartment which is littered by peanuts shells, wafer’s packets etc. they are
lazy morons who don’t even think before throwing the garbage inside the
compartment. According to me, this people should be arrested immediately and
sent to do community service which involves picking up garbage from the trains.
These are the idiots who are responsible to make our country dirty and thus we
are striving so hard to make our country clean or “swacch”…..
7. The newspaper stealer.
They sit beside you or opposite to you. And
then, you commit the biggest mistake of your life. You start reading a
newspaper. Even though they own one paper , they are still interested to read
yours as if it has map of hidden treasure island. So while you are reading,
they move their head in such an angle in order to read articles, which may even put a gymnast to shame. When
you get irritated by all those movements and you decide to put down your own
newspaper, they go back to reading the one they own or worst, ask you give the
paper to them as you are not reading “at the moment”!!!
So this was my list of irritating passengers
found on Indian railways….
Have you encountered any such passengers or am
I missing someone?
Do let me know !!
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