I indeed wish I had a better botched up story to rant about but am afraid it is going to be an another "I-screwed-my-outing" talk again.
well, before we begin, I have a cheap talk to share with. I've always been kind of ridiculed by the thought about which category of music makes maximum use of the available human resource. Quite a skeptical field, isn't it ? I listen to music which is not very popular among my peers. well, It does not mean I go searching for weird music. It occurs to me that the type of songs (R&B) I preferably like listening to is completely considered crap among my peers, One of the songs I can think of now is "Come by me" by Harry Connick Jr. I presume most would not have any idea about him. No Big deal anyway. I would not actually call for people to agree wit me. So the genres/categories like metal, pop, techno constitute the hot slings for music buffs these days, I may pick pop from the above list because they provide better pleasing sounds than the others. Talking about metal, I do not think that I need to do a lot of analization to describe them as one particular word , ie "noise". It does involve the kind of people who spend hours of work grueling out every last working muscle of theirs to get the "Music" they are looking for. It is otherwise "hard work" in developing a temperamental attitude among the other group of listeners but yes, With all due respect, in the end they come out the undisputed winners in terms of vocals, shitty band names (eg, Stone temple pilots, matchbox 20 etc), stamina and drugs :D.
December the 7th, 2009, Dum Dum, kolkata
well, Not Too deep in time this event happens prior to my "out-of-the-world" train experience. This sucked practically more than the journey.
So, a journey through the metro was a celebrated ride for much of the people in kolkata. This place has to be given some credit considering the way it is being maintained and the modernization that has influenced it.
We got down at Dum Dum metro and were frantically looking at random directions for the "exit" sign. There was a huge mob leaving towards one of the exit doors. We followed them. That door led us to some narrow passage and finally to the Dum Dum local railway station. A link between the metro and the local railways?, Wel, practically, We didn't realize that coming but weren't as surprised about the link as well. Having not found or confirmed anything about the ticket counter out of the path that we were looking for, We didn't welcome the sight of the ticket inspector at the corner harrying a disgruntled passenger.
As we passed by, he stopped us to ask,
Your tickets ? said the (TTR)
[P.s.] Any unusual nouns/phrases coming up from now on would practically define the TTR.
We took the metro tickets and we handed him. He silently slid it back to us and said us to follow him to a kiosk where there was possibly this midget guy who was trying to conceal his height by sitting on an elevated chair. He made a totally poorly attempted busy guy kind of look at us and explained us that it was a banished move to travel without tickets. The explanation ended up with the note that we have been charged 250. (There were six of us there)
A stunned look, A couple of faces Shrinking, Eying each other, We exchanged odd glances as we thought it wouldn't have been much of a problem taking that path and more over it was the ticket counter we were looking for!
Everyone of us now trying to concentrate over the situation after his pissing display were trying to make the stumpy guy understand what led us to such a situation. We were trying to enlist the odds like the absence of sign boards and the presence of an unusual link between the two stations. Suddenly, Rajitesh(Normal Guy, with an extraordinary temper) burst out at them. He started parading the authorities for the extraction and harassment they were involving themselves in. He began talking about names he knew working at higher ranks in the railways. Both the officials, now a bit more pissed were trying to make accusations which could lead us to real trouble. Well, doing that did not cause any breakdown to the rebuke that was led at him as Rajitesh (In total form)still reprimanded them.
Capitalizing the situation, the guy "we didn't like" now threatened us that he would by all means use the help of the RPF (railway police force) to handle the situation if Our guy(Rajitesh) continued that way of talking. He pulled out the telephone receiver and tried to contact the RPF (There was no reply from the RPF though) But that action was enough to send nerves packing up through us. None of these actions did protest a change in rajitesh. He did have a point but the way he steered himself through the situation was blunt.
So, What do we do ? I usually have a hard time thinking at stressful situations. This was nothing less compared to one. Back then, we had to take the enthusiastic guy out separately and do the talking with the poorly dressed officials alone. we showed them some of ours Ids and we finally settled for a meagre fee ..
Just when we thought we going in for a smooth exit..
- That is extraction !! screamed raj from outside.
- Do you want to get us to the hostel or not ? said a pissed of Adarsh V Jois to Rajitesh.
- You should treat such people like this man, I tell you, I was here for six years and nothing of this sort has ever happened. I know and I am going to file a complaint about this. he replied.
- Yeah, you work on that when we are not here. Now will you please leave ?, Adarsh was already leaving him as he finished those lines.
The stumpy beaver then interrupted ..
- Tell your friend he talks with complete disrespect. Words like extraction and harassment are so delicate. I have been so patient with you people all this while. Anyway, but since you people are students and are new to this place(Which was pathetically a very very late discovery) we'll let you go. we don't need your money. the ticket counter is on the other side of the platform. you can leave now.
End of Read.
So that is it for the time that has flown so far and since this being my last post of this year. I would like to thank people for keeping me entertained and reminded about my blog. Having contributed less time here. I believe I've filled the void in a lot of querying minds with absolute professional stupidity. Lets keep it coming.
Au revoir
Stay linked.
[P.s.]
Happy 2010 everyone !
A stunned look, A couple of faces Shrinking, Eying each other, We exchanged odd glances as we thought it wouldn't have been much of a problem taking that path and more over it was the ticket counter we were looking for!
Everyone of us now trying to concentrate over the situation after his pissing display were trying to make the stumpy guy understand what led us to such a situation. We were trying to enlist the odds like the absence of sign boards and the presence of an unusual link between the two stations. Suddenly, Rajitesh(Normal Guy, with an extraordinary temper) burst out at them. He started parading the authorities for the extraction and harassment they were involving themselves in. He began talking about names he knew working at higher ranks in the railways. Both the officials, now a bit more pissed were trying to make accusations which could lead us to real trouble. Well, doing that did not cause any breakdown to the rebuke that was led at him as Rajitesh (In total form)still reprimanded them.
Capitalizing the situation, the guy "we didn't like" now threatened us that he would by all means use the help of the RPF (railway police force) to handle the situation if Our guy(Rajitesh) continued that way of talking. He pulled out the telephone receiver and tried to contact the RPF (There was no reply from the RPF though) But that action was enough to send nerves packing up through us. None of these actions did protest a change in rajitesh. He did have a point but the way he steered himself through the situation was blunt.
So, What do we do ? I usually have a hard time thinking at stressful situations. This was nothing less compared to one. Back then, we had to take the enthusiastic guy out separately and do the talking with the poorly dressed officials alone. we showed them some of ours Ids and we finally settled for a meagre fee ..
Just when we thought we going in for a smooth exit..
- That is extraction !! screamed raj from outside.
- Do you want to get us to the hostel or not ? said a pissed of Adarsh V Jois to Rajitesh.
- You should treat such people like this man, I tell you, I was here for six years and nothing of this sort has ever happened. I know and I am going to file a complaint about this. he replied.
- Yeah, you work on that when we are not here. Now will you please leave ?, Adarsh was already leaving him as he finished those lines.
The stumpy beaver then interrupted ..
- Tell your friend he talks with complete disrespect. Words like extraction and harassment are so delicate. I have been so patient with you people all this while. Anyway, but since you people are students and are new to this place(Which was pathetically a very very late discovery) we'll let you go. we don't need your money. the ticket counter is on the other side of the platform. you can leave now.
End of Read.
So that is it for the time that has flown so far and since this being my last post of this year. I would like to thank people for keeping me entertained and reminded about my blog. Having contributed less time here. I believe I've filled the void in a lot of querying minds with absolute professional stupidity. Lets keep it coming.
Au revoir
Stay linked.
[P.s.]
Happy 2010 everyone !