Survival of the Fittest!!!!

Yes that’s the true motto for any person who travels by bus. Hard to digest living in the capital of this awesome country still this is the fact. Our population is just awesome with commonwealth approaching and all the roads getting ready for a makeover the general public is at the losing end. Its true that people say to get anything you need to struggle but let me ask something..Is this struggle.

 

Okay lets get to the point. Let me start by  explaining to you my general bus travel. Well first of all early morning getting ready for college is a tough task for any engineer(to be). Well engineers by virtue of definition are supposed to be awake all night. Reason … well most of them just listening to music, others discussing crap with friends… some hooked on to their cellphones talking to their loved ones(ahem ahem lemme clear it…by loved ones I don’t mean family it means girlfriends or to – be girlfriends) and some planning future life….very few of them are there who might be seen struggling over writing some geeky code…. Don’t ask me what do I do[J].

 

So you get up early in the morning take an shower and you get on to the bus stop just to see that a public bus is waiting for you. Well it’s a convention that you wait for the “DTC” but let me clear it our…DTC may be at your service like Delhi Police but that’s only for the papers in reality story is very different. Well to me DTC are like Dinosaurs … extinct…. Well you wait for the DTC but they just wont come.. Basically it’s the private “BLUELINE” buses that are at your service no matter what. You just don’t need to wait they are always there for you. BUT…yes there is a very big BUT you don’t need to be happy about it let the story continue..

 

So there is this blueline bus waiting for you to come in, the bus conductor comes in to you asks you “Sir chalo kaha jana hai” no matter what you say the conductor will be “chailiye sir bus mein aaiye”. Well waiting for a DTC specially when you want to reach early is no alternative so you step into a DTC and guess what the blueline bus still wont move until it finds each and every possible traveller.

 

Story goes on the bus moves the worst thing is that it will stop for every person on the way even if it is on the middle of the road. You wave at them and they will stop just to catch as they call it a “savari”. The main struggle starts in buses when there is a long route. You are standing and the crowd keeps coming there is no limit in India about the number of persons in a bus(Mrs Sheila Dixit please note for your reference) the conductor is like “Bhaiya thoda aage jaiye” and there is another person in the front who ll say “Bhaiya thoda peeche jaiye”. You will be like “Bloody hell where is the space….but you just cant do anything you will probably be standing but people keep coming.

 

It continues lets jump straight into bus routes no. 34/764/724/33/717/… just to name a few you will get to do all kind of “Swami Ramdev Asanas” it is like a treat for you. The bus will be so damn crowded that you wont need to do anything you might also have to stand on one feet. Still the conductor will be like “bhaiya thodi jagah hai aage jao” I wonder how do they find space.. The most important thing the conductors do is ticket collection…Even if the bus is fully crowded they will still come to collect your ticket by squeezing in…at times you might not be able to see suddenly a hand will come from nowhere and it ll be “Bhaiya ticket”…frankly speaking they become spiderman in buses….well in bluelines there is no respect for women seriously speaking. I guess its because of the crowd even if a woman is standing people just don’t care to get up. This is one thing that is different in Delhi Metro at least people there have the courtesy. Well I seriously think women should never think of travelling in these kind of buses. Well lets continue you will be standing on one feet and there is no mercy.. You will have special crowd all stinking and standing right next to you. Dont ever worry about perspiration you wont just have your perspiration but also from the people next to you. At time you might see droplets falling off from another person on your hand...(Sorry for getting a bit gross)...

Well getting off the bus is another struggle. You need to be over flexible to get out. You follow a  step process

1. Find the target location to get down

2. Plan where to get down 

3. Squeeze as much as possible and keep asking from the people in front "bhaiya kaha utroge"

Well Mrs. Sheila Dixit you have done everything for Delhi but your DTC are just too few for Delhi vasis...I know there is only one dialog .. "We are working in this matter"...Well i can just say i hope things get better even if your party wins/loses the elections as what matters is public. 

Well i guess i ll write another article on Traffic at delhi as its another area you might want to know. 

Well i know it might have been too long 

 

 PS: Never use a deo while travelling it might just turn into a R-Deo (Reverse Deo)