Before I delve into how to make your train travel interesting, let me summarize an important global event which has happened in the last few days:

Event : Sachin became the only man in the world to score 200 runs in a one day match. Sachin you are GOD.

This important event had already occurred when my wife and I started our train journey to Lucknow from Delhi. It was an early morning train, Lucknow Shatabdi, and having waked up in the middle of the night to catch the train both of us were half dead. Like all other Shatabdi trains this one too was a chair car and the cramped chairs provided no comfort for a guy with a large build like me to be able tosleep or to even read the newspaper in comfort. While my wife was comfortably dozing off, I had little to do. So I decided to devote my attention to the young couple sitting on the seat behind us. Let’s call them Dude and dudette. Dudette was extraordinarily chatty and had been talking without a pause since the time we got on the train. This is how their conversation went:

Dudette: The dog’s in my lane are normally very passive during the day but in the night they get really active, they started chasing me when I was starting in the morning to catch the train

Dude: Hmmm

Dudette: There is a guy in my office who blah blah blah

Dude: Hmmm

Dudette: blah blah blah…some more blah blah blah

Dude: Hmmm

Dudette (trying to get the Dude to participate in the conversation): Sachin achieved an awesome feat..scoring 200..

Dude: Yes, it was nice

Dudette: And he did it in all of 20 minutes

Dude (wanting to say ‘what the f’): NO, he did it in 147 balls, bowling so many balls cannot take less than hour and a half

Awkard silence followed and probably the dudette realized that she had been watching the highlights of Sachin’s batting.

I have decided, all I am going to do in future train journeys is to listen to people around me. No more sleeping, no more listening to music, trains have much better ‘in-train’ entertainment.

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