While booking a train ticket on-line can be such pain in the wrong place as described in the previous post, booking tickets at the counter is no less!
1. The Q at the booking counter is always thrice the number of people you expect
2. If you expect 10, there will be 30 people in the Q and so on
3. Useless fact: Most of them would not have showered that morning
4. Utterly useless fact: At-least one person in the Q will claim that he's been waiting at the counter from 4 AM that morning
5. Fact: You will always borrow a pen to fill up the reservation form
6. Point 4 repeats at Banks, Supermarkets, Restaurants etc.
7. By the time you fill the form, another 30 people would have added themselves to the Q
8. Another useless fact: Most of them would not have brushed that morning
9. At-least 3 of them will try to borrow your borrowed pen (!)
10. Meanwhile 5 people will be shouting at 1 person for trying to insert himself into the Q somewhere at the front
11. You'll also hear abusive language in all Indian languages
12. The person before you in the Q will always make sure he/she spends 15 minutes at the counter
13. He will be trying hard to get all his doubts about the railways clarified by the booking clerk
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When all this is happening, the whole world will be trying to book
tickets on-line or at different stations standing in different Qs
15. When you finally reach the counter, it's well past 9 AM
16. You realize you are late to the office, again !!!
17. Every chance that the booking clerk will try to tell you that only WL tickets are available
18. And then you realize, you forgot to bring CASH!!!!!
And this is Aapu in a different form.
Honourable additions to SSSVS: Those who forget to carry a photocopy of their ID proof
