For some personal reasons,i had to get to delhi,and for a first time visitor,experimenting is no good.for,i had to board at uncle s house for which i had to alight at new delhi station,i had no choice but to take to take to karnataka express from bangalore city station.who doesnt know the traffic chaos of a bangalorean evening near the railhead,so i set off early with the minimum of the luggage possible,or,so i thought.train was conjencturally expected to arrive on the platform at 18:20 hrs.to my dismay,i had made it to the station ahead of time,with the baggage so ponderous,i could bearly move about.my only pic was to just sit and wait for the train.the moment i had been longing for did arrive at last.it was more than eventful first few hours in the train,it had been quite a while since i had boarded the train and had little cognizance of the newly laid provision by the railways that would make me go bananas over,all evening,it was something called as vaccancy upgradation,wherein a passanger travelling in a specific class,would on the basis of the date of reservation,be upgraded to a higher class with vaccancies.i was so stewing to get to delhi,that i had booked my ticket 45 days in advance,without my knowledge,i had been upgraded.huff,this was the root of all trouble.
As i took my seat,a middle aged couple came over and started to claim it theirs,and with the seat alloted to 2 indivisuals,stage was all set for a serious altercation,we were both trying to put the ticket into one another s eyes to stake the claim of the seat,when the train conductor made his way,i got to know what crap was going on all the while,i asked the fellow traveller s excuse and made my way to the ac compartment.thats not the end of the story,it would all repeat itself all again,the situation had only got a little topsy turvey,it was me the intruder this time and the bone of contension the seat in 3rd ac.it took little of me to make note this person should be upgraded as well,i took him to the tc and he had been,as i knew 'upgraded'.i could see the fury in the eyes of the tc,he was promiscously bitching everyone in the railway ministry,and i could simply but understand.i could finally breathe a sigh of relief,it had been more than 2 hours that i was moving about the train all confused.by the time i could settle,the catering was already accepting dinner orders,and railway food is no dam good,i was in prepared,with good amount of eatables to sustain me for the next 40 hours of journey.
after a mind boggling 40 hour jourey,i was finally in new delhi station.
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