[BITList] More on Mumbai

[John Feltham]

Only local train passengers in Mumbai will know how helpful commuters  
try to be......




Last week, a hapless victim fell prey to the over enthusiastic  
Bombay's local train commuters.

Our hero, a man from Pune, wanted to go to Matunga, but as luck and  
trains would have it, boarded a fast train not halting at his  
destination. He panicked on realising his mistake but by then the  
local had started moving. On seeing his plight, a sympathetic co- 
passenger decided to come to his rescue.

It seemed that he had been commuting by that particular train (6:03pm  
Kasara Fast) for the past 6 years and had noticed that the train  
always slowed down just before Matunga station and crawled at a  
snail's pace while passing through it. He told the man to jump out of  
the running train as it slowed down and that with a little bit of  
fleet-footedness, he would make it safely on terra firma. However,  
knowing the man's inexperience, he added some words of caution:

"Keep running the moment you jump or you'll fall. Just keep running."  
He stressed the word "running" lest the man not know the laws of motion.

The train did slow down just before Matunga station and at the  
prompting of his mentor, our hero jumped out of the train and started  
running as if all hell had broken loose.

What he didn't realise, of course, was that he was running parallel to  
the train instead of running away from it. Meanwhile, the train slowed  
down further, so that the man was running faster than the train. In  
the process, he reached the door of the next compartment and the  
footboard commuters there pulled him in thinking he was trying to  
board the train!

To his agony, the train picked up speed and sped past Matunga and his  
new co-passengers started to congratulate him on how lucky he had  
been, until he told them that they had actually undone what he had  
done with great difficulty.

Those standing at the door of his "ex-compartment" had witnessed the  
whole drama and just couldn't stop laughing at the poor man's  
situation, while he grinned sheepishly!!!

Ae dil, hai mushkil, jeena yahaan, Zara hatke, zara bachke, yeh hai  
Bombay meri jaan......................
	
ooroo

If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door.

Anon.



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