IRCTC – We are against reservation .

Are you single @ IRCTC.

Saw the above quote somewhere on the internet as it lives up-to its meaning. Getting a confirmed ticket in Indian Railways is mission impossible minus the Tom Cruise. But ‘Ache Din Aane Waale Hain’ man has done some improvements in the website. Gone are the days when Tatkal Booking was torture exceeding the levels of  ‘Saw’ series. It was like jigsaw puzzle of logging in again and again seeing that ‘Service not Available’ message every-time.

Many a times I used booking tatkal ticket as a leave excuse and my manager never refused.

Hail the Indian Railways!! ——————————————————————————————————————

Well enough of the praise above and let get to the point of writing this post.  As the title suggests, here are some difficulties single people face while traveling on Indian Railways.

• If you are single and a Guy unfortunately, you will hear the below lines more often ;

         ” Arey Beta, Aap akele ho toh hamari seat se exchange kar loge? Now these lines are thrown to you in such an innocent way that you can not refuse. Now you must exchange your seat in the hope of finding a girl in another coach (if you are a guy) which rarely happens & exchange never happens near to your coach , you need to perform interstellar travel to reach the exchanged coach. During this interstellar travel to the designated coach, you will go through variety of people. As you exit your coach, you will find some waiting list people sitting near fragrant washroom playing cards and hurling abuses to IRCTC for not clearing their waiting list. As you move on to another coach, you will find some oldies giving gyaan to all the passengers in their vicinity;

How they used to adjust in their age?  Today’s generation do not listen and adjust. They are arrogant and selfish. They do not give respect  etc etc. 

As you move further to another coach, you will find some lovey dovey couple exchanging PDA without any worries. Atleast they should care about sentiments of single travelers but NO, they will continue with their PDA .

Then there will be people who have brought all the things as their luggage for their weekend trip. You will think that seats were reserved for luggage but not people. Jamming all the passage with big iron boxes and sometimes even 100 liter water container (Generally found on Bihar bound trains), the trail looks more like a Maal Gaadi minus the Maal if you know what I mean 😉

Last but not the least, how can you ignore the crying babies in IRCTC. Actually its not fault of babies, its their parents who experiment traveling with their small babies in IRCTC.  Arey Bhai, jawaan logon ki band baja deti hai IRCTC, leave alone the babies.

Back to the interstellar travel, you must be half way through your journey to exchanged coach, your mind starts to pray that you do not get to share your seat with some oldie or small kids but God does not listen to single people specially in India Rail.

Killing all your dreams, you reach that designated coach with hope of sharing your birth with some beautiful chic but you will find wrinkles and diapers along with strange looking single people except yourself.

But remember, its all about adjusting. You sacrificed your side lower birth with a middle one now and you think next time you will not adjust at any cost but alas, Karma is a Bitch & you are trapped every-time in the name of adjusting.

Sometimes I feel Indian Rail should rename themselves to Adjusting Railways teaching important adjustments in life without any extra addition in their fat fares minus the services.

I will continue this post for more adjustments;

Till then you cant even fake the below sentence but you can try 🙂

“I Love Indian Railways”

Say this 100 times before your journey, maybe you get an upgrade to 1st AC at no extra cost.

 Written by Damanpreet Singh (http://whenlifeismeme.blogspot.in/)

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