1. 10 Things That You Would Surely
Notice While Travelling In India.
By Shashank Tiwary

2. Plans and more plans
• As the holidays drew closer, I started making plans about
travelling home.
• I had to decide how to travel and frankly speaking there was
nothing to decide.
• As the kind of lazy I am, I don’t ever get a train reservation
done and I thought of travelling by air, but due to my limited
pocket money that plan soon vanished into thin air.
• So, I boarded a bus and like I said, there was nothing to
decide. In fact, I don’t even like travelling to the fridge when
someone asks me to fetch a glass of water.
• But then, travelling has its own benefits too. You get to see
some really beautiful sights and I am not talking about the
beauty of nature, if you know what I mean.

3. Be ready for anything!
• However, during my journey I noticed some of the
incidents that DO happen whenever you travel across our
country
• 1. There will be a cute girl who would board the same bus
along with zillions of relatives of hers. You would try to roam
around her seat, make eye contact, but then you would hold
your emotions on checking her brother’s muscles.
• 2. There is always a ‘Just Married’ couple in the bus who
would keep doing those mushy romantic things. And you
would die a thousand deaths right there if you are single, just
like I did. Statistics suggest that 99% of those ‘Just Married’
aunts somehow look smoking hot which would add salt on
your wounds..

4. • 3. Then, there are the oldies. These people take the saying
‘Old is Gold’ way too seriously and to a complete different
level. Old is Gold except when you’re dealing with Indian
politics and college professors. They can talk about the Indian
weather and Sonia Gandhi like forever. One of them gave me
that “how-dare-you’’ look when I bought a Filmfare magazine
• 4. Then, the actual person (whom you wished to be some
cute girl- Ouch) on your adjacent seat. They are mostly the
ranting kind, like, “don’t open the window, don’t play music,
don’t fall over my shoulder while sleeping, keep your luggage
on your side’’. And you would so desperately want to throw
him out of the window.

5. • 5. Another interesting character that you would come across
is the bus driver. He’ll play songs that can put even Justin
Beiber to shame. ‘Pardesi pardesi jana nahi, Tum toh thehre
pardesi saath kya nibhaoge’ seem to be their all time favourite.
And he will resort to telling you his own love story
contemplating its being the plot for DDLJ-2.
• 6. Then the type who try to get so very over-friendly. He
would offer you Parle G and in exchange eat your Bourbon. He
would share (read: use it as his own) your water bottle to your
earphones to your blanket. He would keep telling you stories
about himself, his family, his college, his dog, his childhood
crush and so on. And you would feel like puking on his face.

6. • 7. There are these hotels/dhabas where the bus stops for
snacks etc. Ironically more than worrying about the food, you
keep searching for a proper place to pee.
• 8. There’s a time during the journey when your phone’s
battery dies, your fellow passengers are busy. You look at the
bus window and it makes you think about your life. You think
about your past and tend to get all serious until you get a
glimpse of the hot aunty suddenly and you’re back to being
your-lazy-ass-normal-self.

7. • 9. Finally, you are about to reach your destination. You shift
your luggage near the door and realize that the journey was
fun despite those sufferings. Somewhere you would miss, if
only for a while, that little cute kid, the bus driver’s story, that
nagging passenger and obviously the hot item, oops aunt!
• P.S- I did not write the last point. Not because I forgot, but I
want you to add your own experiences

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