Sunday, January 1, 2012

Tea opposite Lily Cottage

Tea opposite Lily Cottage

It was the tea opposite Lily cottage that gave me the confidence that i could cover some distance on foot. Distances that i have been trying to cover on foot and Krupasandhu Communication opposite the beach i tried on two occasions for cyber bite. The man manning the desk and also serving as priest told me the nagging pain of net being slow and this would dislodge me from seamless flow. Probably the day on Sunday had begun with a visit to the Puri station to get the ticket for the next destination. Shutters were down when i reached there and in evidence was pushing and shoving as shutters were lifted in full glare.

The reservation personnel on counter two was taking his own sweet time to get functional. And the man ahead of me hailing from Odisha and claiming to have settled in Kerala too diagnosed the problem in the same sentiment. Probably the first ticket would have taken some time to be issued but the amount of time it took surely suggested that reservation personnel had some other issues to handle before he could issue the first printout clue. By the time my turn came courtesy a gentleman from the State of West Bengal who offered me his standing position thereby lending me to jump 10 places in ticket queue pump the ticket personnel had some issues with my pan card xerox. I handed him the original to satisfy his query and when the xerox was handed with signature appended he again had issues on how signature had been cemented. I signed again and gave him the requisite change and here on three different occasions he said : " aaj kal sab log governor samajte hai" The signature and its lessening clarity made him issue this statement three times perhaps suggesting that the issue of ticket was never on his mind. This has been the experience of most passengers that whenever they go to a reservation counter to get a ticket issued the reservation personnel is a person occupied with other thoughts and no care.
The ticket was issued for a State beyond Odisha and it came at Eight O One fare. The fare was steep and here i should count my blessings that confirmed ticket was the biggest reap.
The reservation personnel is in a world of his own and given the masses the railways carry you can't fault them for their shinning foam. The return from station to Temple Road was on foot and it was an experience that one should book. Because there are some green cover you pass through and some roads which has traffic few.Going past Station Road, VIP Road it does not take long for one to experience the green cover and the shinning hour.

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