Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Crazy bus wala. Aise hi fas gaya bechaara!

After sleeping at 2' in the night, how could one manage to get up and catch the 8 am bus for office.
That day I got up at 8.30. As my roommate leaves for his office at 9.30, So I asked him to drop me at Sector-82, on his way to office. Actually Sector-82 is half the distance to my office in Greater Noida, so the rest half I had to cover up by local bus.

Finally got down at sector 82.
"Thanks karan bhai. Have a good day", I said to my dear roomie.

Oh my god ! Two private buses coming side by side at killer speed. They were racing and trying to pass each other to grab the maximum passengers.I didn't dare to enter either of these two buses. So thought of getting some govt. service bus.
Yeah! Here it comes, the newly launched low floor green colored bus.
"Will it go to LG Chowk", I asked the bus driver.
"Yes. It will", He replied.

I got in and and to my surprise got a seat also to sit. But before feeling happy about it, I looked up at the label if its a ladies seat or not. Because one need not be very happy sitting on ladies seat, reason being that it's quite possible that the next stop some lady enters and you have to surrender your so called 'lady'z seat
'. I wondered why women can sit eveywhere in the bus but men can sit only on men'z seats.
I asked myself, "Why at all there is a need for ladies reserved seats".
And to my suprise when I got the answer, I was feeling ashamed of myself. It was I who was responsible for this. And lot of other Gurpreet Singh's like me.

We men have misbehaved and caused so much inconvenience to the women. That such a situation has arisen. We never cared about feelings of wives and sisters of our other fellows before eve teasing and molesting.

Had we respected their feeling, then there would not have been any need for such reservations.
I wonder why we all cannot respect and love everybody on our own. Why do we arise a situation to impose such rules on us. Can't we all be responsible enough to erase the need of such rules. Just imagine how beautiful the world will be where everyone moves around with full freedom without any insecurity fom anyone.

But anyways it was not a ladies seat in my case, so was very happy about it.
I opened up my bag, got the ear plugs, connected to my iphone and here it plays my favorite song:
" ek din aap yun humko mil  jaayene,
  phool hi phool raahon mein khil jaayenge,
  maine socha na tha ....."

And the bus fnally stopped somewhere, I didn't know what bus stop it was. Everybody started getting down.
"What happened bhai", I asked.
"This is the last stop. Bus goes upto here only", said one of passenger.
 So I also got down as everyone else was. Suddenly realized that it was not LG chowk. But I had already inquired from driver for the LG Chowk before boarding into it.
So I returned to the driver and got into the bus. There were only two people in big-big bus i.e. Driver and Me.
I didn't say anything to him and kept looking into his eyes for few minutes.
"Why did you do that to me bhai", I said.
"Did I asked you or not if it goes to LG ".
" Tell me why did you do that to me. This is your bus my brother, I cannot say anything to you. But atleast let me know the reason for your doing so".
"I tried to keep my tone as polite as possible because I was not angry at all, rather I was surprised"
I kept looking into his eyes expecting some answer.

But instead he pressed some button on the panel near the steering and the bus door got closed.
"What happened, why have you closed the door." I asked.
"Sit sardar ji, I will drop you to LG", he said.

I was not able to believe what he had said. But the bus was moving on. I was sitting alone in the newly launched big bus with the driver who was trying to get forgiveness, forgiveness for misleading me for getting me into his bus just to get the bus fare.
The bus finally reached the LG Chowk. I crossed the road and entered the office.

I dont know how it all happened. But it was another nice event in my life.

Then i realized that, if I had engaged into arguments and started the blame game with him he would not have been nice to me. As someone has rightly said that "There is a nice person hidden in everybody". But in order to see that 'nice person' in others we have to firstly show the 'nice person' hidden in us.

From that day onwards I consider everyone as 'Nice Person' and as a return everyone considers me 'Nice Person'.

Hisaab Barabar ! Happy Happy !

11 comments:

Unknown said...

haha..u were lucky that day.. bhai ji..n that driver was quite honest..such drivers exist like 1 in 1000..n regarding that ladies seats..its just to give a resting place to those ladies in those chaotic bus rides..if bus is too crowdy n girls have to stand..then some he people try to touch them here n there..taking advantage of the crowd..samething hpnd in metro last week..when metroline got jammed..some men are just animals hunting for ladies..if such men are thrown away then there will be no special ladies seats that day..n all can have any available seat..

Sharon Padmanabhan said...

saale kamine akele akele.... bus me ghooomta hai.....
Dude dats jst d power of one's love.... that reflects in one's eyes....

Anonymous said...

bhaji kayam hai. keep it up

Jaspreet Singh

vikas said...

reminds me of "secret", the book.. whtevr vibrations you pass on to the universe come back.. it's easy to see that the game belongs to the one who is +ve
"what you sow so shall you reap"..
btw, liked ur honesty, esp when u project urself as a molester..hehehe :D

Anonymous said...

kya baat hai ladke..achi kismat h teri :)

Honey said...

Dhami..you were lucky that day!!

Viradiya Hitesh said...

hey..dhami...I think the resulting response was your politeness with the driver..but angryness might results in the mirror side...This is so called Dhamal...of..."Art of Living.."

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Kritika said...

kyaa baat hai paaaji..sadhna pakki hai tuaadi..got really lucky dat day..huh....waayyy to go buds....im proud of the way u handled.... :)

XENIA MEHTA said...

as always.....
maine aapse kuch siikhaaa...............
u r a gr8 teacher...
i must agree....

Fascinating Future said...

Looks like you were daydreaming