My experiment with BMTC....

After years of traveling in autos and getting myself and my purse abused, I finally decide to use the BMTC service to reach office. I picked out today to start the adventure. I woke up normally and left my place at 0820hrs. I had not even reached the bus stop, when I saw one bus going past. It was almost empty and if at all my leg was alright, I would have made a dash and caught. But alas! not everything goes your way!! But still, I did not loose hope. I stood at the stop for hardly 5 mins, when another of those comes my way and stops. I stand by the door in the centre, coz that was the place through which I used to get into buses, eons ago. But that door never opened and the bus just went away! I did not expect that and was too flabbergasted to do anything!!
I still did not loose hope and waited. During this time, I got company at the bus stop. One old lady, a techie guy (you can say it by the way they dress up and flaunt their company IDs) and a beautiful female. I smiled at them as they came in, the old lady returned my smile, the techie guy looked at me as though I am an alien and the girl, she just gave me a smirk as though I was a road romeo (maybe I look like one, but I can't help it!!). It was then that I realized, like the bus entrances, the commuters and their attitude, too have changed.
Thankfully, another bus came along soon. Now I just followed the crowd to get into the bus. They got in through the front door, only then did I realize that that bus did not have a conductor, and the driver himself collects the money for the tickets. I pay for the ticket and get a seat to sit!!
Here again I faced the same dilemma, " to smile or not not to smile". I decided that I still need time to understand people so decided not to! I put on my headphones to listen to "Pori Tapori Rachna" and pick up Cohelo and read through several chapters.
I asked the driver to drop me off at the Richmond circle which is around 800 meters from my office, but that chap stopped the bus at Pallavi Theatre which is around 1.5Kms from my office, as the crow flies. On road actual distance is a little more that 2.2Kms. I decide that the morning walk is good for me and I walk and somehow reach the office.
The total time I have spent from the time I left my place to the time I reach office is around 75mins. If I had taken an Auto, the time is anywhere between 30mins to 90mins, depending on how lucky I am and how fast i can convince someone to go to the place where my office is!
The total money spent is actually less than 10%.
So now I have decided to continue my adventurous journey in BMTC for the time being, at least in the mornings, when I have so much of time at hand!!