New to mouthshut and starting with a blog here. I want to narrate an real life incident that took place last to last week, although it was very very hilarious one. My jaws literally fell off laughing when this incident took place. It was a sunday I was heading to my aunt's place, and it was early morning. My aunt stays at Virar so I had to travel by train to reach virar as I live in jogeshwari. I boarded a slow local from jogeshwari to andheri back so that I could catch a fast train from andheri to virar. I was well dressed in formals and wearing formal shoes, in short I was descently dressed up. I reach Andheri station and now decide to have something as I was very hungry and make my way out of the station. Done with morning breakfast I take the bridge to reach the platform where fast trains arrive. It was really hot so I preferred to waiting on the bridge and enjoying little cool air and one side keeping eye on the train so that as soon as the train comes I can board it.
It was a sunday so one won't expect the TTE to be present on the stations, but this day was something different as there were two TTE standing on the bridge hunting for people without tickets. I was enjoying the cool wind blowing and was even keeping an eye on the TTE as to what kind of people do they catch and what behavior do they notice in people and filter them and ask for their tickets.
I was standing on the brigde for around 10 mins and in this 10 mins every single second was interesting and funny. Few things that I noticed was that the TTE never caught any female, so if your a female reading this u can escape TTE asking for tickets especially at Andheri haha. The second thing that I noticed was that many daily commuters knew the TTE very well and greeted them nicely and in turn the TTE too greeted them nicely. The third thing that I noticed was that the two TTE placed themselves at the best possible corner wherein they could track anyone and everyone. Goshhh!!!! they were very smart set of people inspite being old.
In the brief stay of mine on the bridge they enquired around 20-25 people for tickets and got hold of just one person. Don't know what happened further with that guy who wasn't having ticket as I left to board the train. But the rest people whom they enquired were majority people who dressed shabbily and seemed to be rural public. I can say that out of 25 people just one was well dressed rest all others were either shabbily dressed or seemed as if they came from native or seemed nervous.
Now comes the moment which I was describing as funny, there was a guy who was shabbily dressed and seemed as if he's come in mumbai for the first time and seemed lost. The two TTE were standing at 10 metres distance from each other. The first TTE caught this guy and asked to show the ticket, this guy quietly removes his tickets and show it to the first TTE, and then the first TTE returns his ticket back as it was a return ticket I guess. After walking for another 10 metres distance this guy is been asked for the ticket second time. This time the guy gets pissed and shouts in anger that "PHELE WALE TTE KO DIKHAYA NA MAINE TICKET, ACHEE KAPDE NAHI PEHNE HAI USKA MATLAB YEH NAHI HAI KI TICKET NAHI KHARIDUNGA" meaning I already showed the first TTE the ticket, and that doesn't mean that if I don't wear a good shirt I won't buy ticket. For a second or two I could even see the TTE smiling and at that point of time even I coudn't control my laughter hahahahahahaha.
"We live in a world in which outer appearance do matter a lot"
