I have always preferred train and after yesterday night’s experience I see no reason why I would want to change the preference. Not being able to book a tatkal tickets in Kacheguda-Bangalore Express I had resigned myself to a bus journey. Having a sleeper bus ticket in hand I thought the experience might be better than that of semi-sleeper ones. Alas, it turned out otherwise.
My seat number was U11. There were 12 seats in the bus, so I was pretty much in the last row. Just as the bus started I got out my laptop and started watching a movie. Movie + checking EPL scores + looking at my location on the goolgle map killed about 3 hours of time. By then everybody was asleep and the lights had been put out. I packed up and lay down to sleep.
It’s amazing that when you are occupied by something how you tend to ignore everything else around you. Now that I had nothing to do but close my eyes, I realized how much the bus was tossing me around. The driver makes a turn and I get pushed across the wall of the bus. A speed-breaker and I get tossed up. And whenever the driver braked sharply, I feared I would fall down. Somehow I managed to sleep.
And arriving at the destination at 6 in the morning didn’t help either.
Nice thing I have already booked my tickets for Holi. Journey by train is way better than bus.
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