Tuesday, 6 January 2009

If not Life, atleast Train is full of snores

After spending around an hour in Train No. 2327/Upasana Express on my way to Lucknow on 3rd January night and an hour on yesterday's night(on my return from Lucknow) ,about this post, finally I sit here to write. I had planned to start it with a quotation on "Life" by a famous and eminent personality but by the decree of my ghazni like memory ,even after spending half an hour on it I am not able to recall it properly.The great world wide web and consultation with two fellows and class-mates at IIT Kharagpur have not helped the cause either. I still remain a bad searcher on internet.

Well the quotation was something like
Life is full of something,something and something with last something predominant-By someone.
The real problem is that I rememeber two somethings exactly which are sneezes and snores, but not able to recall the third something and the someone.

Anyways going by the words of Sameer, I am a talented person and an engineer by profession so let me engineer it myself..

"Life is full of snubs,sneezes and snores with snores predominating"-Umesh
"Life is full of struggles, sneezes and snores with snores predominating"-Umesh
"Life is full of surprizes,prizes and snores with snores predominating"-Umesh

All the three lines in double commas above culminate in snores predominating as the current post is about snores only.

Around mid night on 2nd January on seat number 30 in coach no. S1, I'd had a very bad time, because of people snoring all around, with the person on my left on seat no. 27 and some one in cubicle left next to mine and someone else in cubicle next to the cubicle on my right among a few to be mentioned as I could not figure it out exactly who else were contributing to the great snore of 2nd jan, 2009 and nor I was interested to do that.With the gentleman mentioned last leading the pack.

It was sort of tolerable when train was running fast as we all are familiar with the level noise our trains generate.But when ever it was turning slow or coming to a halt ,the snores were intolerable.
Forget about sleeping it was not possible to remain awake calmly, with the snoring archestra working incessantly. It was non-stop kind of relay race, one beginning exactly before someone else ends.And the beauty of it was that one could not read a book or hear to music to outdo them as It would have disturbed others who were sleeping unaware of the brutality being caused on some six seven people including me.I have been victim of this thing at my home also with Papa snoring in otherwise peacefull house, but there was a solution to it, waking papa up because of some excuse and It would take him some time before he starts snoring again and by that time you may be asleep.But here, there was no solution of that kind possible.

I found company in some three-four guys in the cubicle on my right, distressed, disturbed and frustrated like self.When it crossed the limit, someone among them started playing music on mobile phone, but contrary to our short lived happiness it was objected by someone after 2 minutes.I tell you It was really frustrating and annoying as you could not sleep even when you are feeling damn sleepy.

People were enjoying it like as if the count of our fundamental rights had been eight, the latest being "Right to Snore in the Train-even if creates problem to the co-passengers".

Mind you please book your ticket in advance as they put all snorers in Tatkal Coach Only.
I think Railway works on the slogan of "Pay more, Bear more".

Thanks..Umesh

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