Sunday, April 17, 2005

More about the “Interesting” People

Ok-so where was I??Ahhh, yes...the train had just stopped...

So this Krishna man- he's just as bewildered as the rest of us, but he pretends he is no longer a non-Buddhist, but a rescue officer of some kind.He yells something like:
"Don't worry everybody- this bloke's got himself a certificate in first aid!"
The "bloke" he was refering to happened to be fast asleep with not inkling as to the goings-on in the train.

Well anyway- mortified and embarrased as I was- there was more to come. The Air-con stopped!! And I was wearing this thick-as coat, which I had absolutely no way of taking off as I was kind of squased in between 5 other people.

Ok- so you all think its over, but it's actually not!
Miraculously, the train starts again. Whew!! (*deep sigh of relief*).So the non-Buddhist-wannabe-rescue-officer-Krishna-man sits himself down again. And so began his story of how he imagines oz to be a coutry of fantasies...I'm thinking: Fantasies??!!?
Somehow I survived the next 5 minutes.

Finally...the good news: He was getting off!!!But not before a final scene.As he left his seat, he yelled out to an old lady all the way on the other side of the carriage:
"Excuse me! Excuse me madam...you can sit down now... I'm getting off!"T
he lady was hesitant (obviously), since she would have had to jump over ten other people just to make her way across to the seat.But of course (ok- I have to admit, he was doing a nice thing- its just the way he went about doing the nice thing that was really ... well, wierd) he escorted her back to his seat. And by escort I mean, he trampled over all ten others who were unlucky enough to be standing in that carriage on that day.

There's my story...Now, advise me: how would you react to someone like that??!!??

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