Friday, August 14, 2009

The Illegal compartment day.

Hahahahaha.
We'd left to get Raph, Amelie and Keenon admission in ruia. Shailee was going to meet us in college and Ams the Pams wasn't well, so me and Raph took the Star bus or whatever. Which is pretty awesome.
Mais, il fait trop froid dans le bus. We reached and then went to college. I tried to get my ID card, but they asked me to come between 2 and 4. I was obviously too lazy to wait. :D Then I showed Raph around. And then Maithili, Keenon and Shailee were there. The Principal was out of station, so, we couldn't get to him. We decided to collect our visiting cards (YES. :D) and the flags and pins and stuff from the Rotex people instead. So, Shailee drove to Bandra. We went to the girl's place, got our stuff, drank coffee, ate biscuits, spoke to people, forgot that Sukriti was waiting in the car downstairs, then remembered that Sukriti was waiting in the car downstairs, then ate real fast, and left. We ate some more at Subway after that. Outside Subway though, we saw a couple of eunuchs. Raph had an obvious doubt about their.. let me put it this way.. appearance. Then we explained to him some gruesome details, after which he thought it was asbolutely necessary to say the world out aload a zillion times in public. Shailee and Sukriti wanted to shop after that, so me and Raph decided to take the train from Sion station. This is where the fun part starts. We waited for the train. Then, I made sure we were getting into the 2nd class general compartment(the worst of the lot) and sat down. After a while, I realized that it just didn't quite SEEM right. The seats, the emptiness. It was all bothering me in a way. The seats were in pairs of 2, and there was only 1 man in the compartment. What added to the discomfort was the way they were looking at the two of us. Like, "don't you think you're just a BIT too.. out of place?". Me and Raph just couldn't help but laugh. THEN, out of nowhere, Raph was pointing at something below and saying "dead man! dead man!". When I looked below the seats in front of us, this is what I saw:




Yes. A sleeping, as good as dead man. We could not miss the opportunity of clicking pictures. We got plenty. :D Then, at some station, a guy tried to get in the compartment and the man already inside made him go away. That's when I asked what was wrong with THIS compartment. The man replied saying, "Yeh illegal compartment hai". Raph asked me what that meant, I said "This is an ILLEGAL compartment." and then paused to get a reaction. Like I had expected, both of us burst out laughing. We laughed SO much. We got down at Ghatkopar station. Then, Raph gave me his classic, "Its RIDICULOUS" look and asked me, "So, it's like that? Ladies 1st class, ladies 2nd class, General 1st class, general 2nd class, illegal compartment.. blah blah?"

I was like, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
:D
:D
So, that's it. This was when me and Raph got out safe, sound and alive from an illegal compartment. I now have a folder on my pc with pictures saying "Illegal compartment day". Now that THAT'S done, it's one thing off my "Countless things to do before I die" list.

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