Kevin and I in India by Frank Kusy

Author:Frank Kusy [Kusy, Frank]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PublishDrive
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

March 3rd

Preparing to set off alone tomorrow, I went down this morning to Poona station to book a train ticket to Aurangabad. It was here that I came up against one of those ghastly train reservation queues that tourists tell such chilling tales about. I had managed to avoid them so far, but the moment I entered the busy station I knew my number was up.

Before I was allowed to join the massive queue for tickets, I had to get a ‘reservation slip’. But the clerk I approached for this had just run out of them. While awaiting the arrival of a fresh supply, he went off for a long tea break. I only got the reservation slip an hour later. And I still couldn’t join the ticket queue – I had to get the slip ‘number stamped’ by the platform ticket collector. This was a very elusive gentleman who, when I finally tracked him down, didn’t speak a word of English. But I got my slip stamped and at last joined the ticket queue. It stretched like a long, winding snake out of the large station concourse and into the street. The Indian in front of me at the rear of the queue turned round to look at the number on my ticket, and just laughed. He told me not to bother queuing up at all – I wouldn’t be getting my ticket until sometime in the middle of next week.

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