Saturday, May 30, 2009

Life in a Metro


I travel by metro to go to college. And it’s really tiring and boring if friends are not accompanying you. But there are surely some incidents which give you a reason to smile or perhaps a laugh.
So here I was listening to radio (a lifeline for metro commuters) and after a long period I got a seat. After my sight glided away from phone, it stuck to a man sitting in front of me. He was a middle aged, fat man wearing whole black coat and white trousers. Looked like a Lawyer. And he also got a collar which was suiting him but what didn’t suit was the attitude he was wearing like he is some distant cousin of malya. He was "sitting pretty" but not sitting nicely (something like in this picture).
With that thought my eyes slided towards the man who was sitting besides him on left, who had no problem facing lawyer’s shoe. That man didn’t look all in riches as such. His over all looks were that good. I was about to pity him. But what do I see.........
This gentleman was sneaking into the papers this lawyer was traversing. This made me assume that he must be his client who is peeping in to know the advancements.
My next random thought while watching the scene was "Now the lawyer will actually make him believe that his time is really important that’s why he is checking his paper in metro and at last will demand the big amount". Whole movie kind of scene flashed in my mind. Don’t know why but I thought of sharing this in the blog and blogger in me got so excited with the idea that I got a weird idea of clicking this picture where a needy man goes to a pompous lawyer for help and he is busy throwing his attitude. I opened the camera and switched off its flash and first tried it on my hand to counter check if its flash is visible. Then I raised my mobile a little so that it appears like I am changing radio channel. But none of my efforts were fruitful either because of lack of courage or because of lady sitting besides me, watching me doing all this and yet just smiling at me. I wonder if she was empathetic enough.

When I was just trying to click, I observed something. Another man enters the picture sitting on the other side of lawyer staring at me. And next instance I see him saying something to him. No, not about me (am sure).His body language made me believe that he was very comfortable speaking to this lawyer like he knew him already. And very pleasing kind of, like his assistant. I blinked.

I thought 'oh god! I am 18 above (legally adult) and he is a lawyer. He can sue me anytime without any special efforts for professional consultancy '. So, I closed my camera. After that I didn’t even looked at them for 2 minutes. I was changing radio channels very fast. Then when I raised my eyes I saw lawyer pulling his collar. He said something to his assistant, gave those papers back to his client (yes he was his client indeed). When he was putting his collar in his inner pocket he glanced at me and I innocently pretended to change my radio channel AGAIN. After two stations he stood up and walked off metro with his so assumed client and assistant.


Moral of the story-Never click picture in public places (surely not of unknown).

2 comments:

  1. One part brave, three part fool :)
    still proud of you.

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  2. Also clicking a picture in metro entails a fine ... did you know that :P

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