A few months back I came to Mumbai. To work with a prime IT company. I never wanted to join it, My focus and willingness was to start my own online business but you know… Its hard time in IT and so I had a few options. Working with a company would be lesser risk, would add experience to my resume (which people take very seriously here in India- its a must for making people listen your voice) and would give me a chance to try my luck in Bollywood…. Just kidding ;-)
Life here at Mumbai is hard unless you find some fun even in the disgusting smell of sweat of people traveling with you in the Local trains. Local train is life of Mumbai. Without them, Mumbai looks paralyzed. When I just arrived here I was very frightened by the way the crowd enters in them, but as I spent some time here, I came to know the techniques people follow to be comfortable even in that huge crowd of locals.
Believe me, Its an art to travel in Mumbai Locals. Here are few lessons I learnt during my time of traveling.
1. Take your position before train comes. Its like preparing for the war which is eventually gonna happen.
2. Once local arrives, get attach to the right or left handle of gate and see people getting out of it. When the last person is getting out, push him a bit ( strange ) and enter in the train.
3. Enter and go right towards the seats and try to make your position. Believe me making your position in the train is tougher than making it in the cut throat competition among the colleagues in the office
4. If you’ve been successful in doing 1-3, then your life for the next few minutes or an hour be OK (you might find a seat if you’re luckier than I usually be) else get prepare for hell.
5. People will keep getting in and out of train, crushing you, pressing you in the sides, giving you another shower with their everlasting sweat and worst, a crook… taking your wallet like it’s his parental property. And you can do nothing but curse them for their deed.
You might pray to god for help but soon enough you’d know that nothing would help you, so it’s better to practise the lessons. “Practise makes a man perfect” I never knew before this.
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