Tuesday, December 30, 2008

.... Waiting List 305

I have been transferred to Pune in starting of december and the day I planned to come pune I also planned to go home on christmas holiday...As I am the best in planning but everyone knows that I am the worst in executing them. This is also an example of this thing.
I planned that I will book online bus tickets some day and will go by bus , I will search bus for evening tome only after 7PM so I will manage the office also. If Pune to Udaipur(900KM) direct bus will not be available than First I will go Ahemedabad and than will take another bus to udaipur. But this is only plan which never be executed in my case. So I started searching for bus on 19th december and ended after 15 minutes of starting. Result was as usual - There is only one bus from Pune to Udaipur at 1PM and all buses to ahmedabad were full. There is no waiting list in case of bus reservation.
Now I had only one option left that is Pune to Ahmedabad by train and next part of journey is unknown. I checked for "Tatkal Reservation" but it was full. So I went to Railway Reservation counter for booking. The Lady Said "Ahimsa Express"- Waiting List 305. I was expecting 105 but what could I do. I said okay!. No problem.Actually this was my only big problem.
Finally The journey day- 24 Dec came. Another problem I didn't know how to go to Pune station. but some how i reached there by 6:30PM. Train is scheduled at 7:50PM.People are searching for coach but I had "The Ticket with Waiting list 305".
After some confusion I stepped in coach S-2. There were 6X8 feet free space and already there were 4 boys 3 girls(All are from Infosys) standing. All looked at me. I was Smiling and thinking that I am not alone fool here. One boy was sitting on TTE seat. I hardly got space to put my bag. I didn't know how will i pass 12 hours like this cold but i was happy that I am going home.
than my luck started....The guy who was sitting on TTE seat asked about my destination. I said "Ahmedabad". He said I am going to Loonawala, you can sit on my seat after Loonawala. Loonawala is very good tourist place at an hour distance from Pune. So I got the seat with waiting list 305. Other group looking at me with anger and frustration.
They set down on news paper and had dinner and than we played Antakshari and after that every one slept. At 7:45am train reached to Ahmedabad. I got an auto to bus stand and again good luck I got the bus there on the time.

I reached Udaipur at 2 PM on Christmas. This is my trip to Udaipur after
My first Employment,
Two Transfers,
Three Cities in Three Different states,
Four New Sim Cards,
Five Salaries,
Six Different Journies and
A Ticket With Waiting List 305..... :)

<---Manish Jain--->

2 comments:

Madhuri Kunisetty said...

hey manish, finally went home?? last few lines were too gooooooooooooood!!

Tarun Goel said...

a nice read