Monday, November 5, 2012

Just a bus ride!


So the other day I was riding in a public bus, and I realized something that I cannot keep inside me, just need to blurt out. As usual, the bus was over-flooded, mostly with around-19-year-old-looking-people-with bag on shoulder and headphones in ear (I just cannot stop wondering what one does when headphone just falls? I mean its not like you have space to move your hand or head :P) So anyway, after halfway standing, I managed to jump on a seat. Just after 2 minutes, a handicapped (I don’t know if using that term is offensive, sorry if it is) person stepped in and was standing. I offered him my seat, which he took, and I went on to join the standing crowd again. Just where I was standing, I suddenly saw something. It was written “Viklaag” above a seat right in front of my eye and a 19-yr-something-with-headphones was sitting right there in the fucking seat, texting simultaneously. By just the nature of me, I was suddenly agitated. What the hell was that seat meant for? For a moment I was tempted to tap his shoulder and say “Haan aapko jyada zarurat hai ‘viklaang’ seat ki”. But then I thought, wasn’t the handicapped person himself willing to stand rather than ask him to stand up? Who will care when one cannot help oneself? For the whole bus ride, I was thinking. This is some shit, some are too ignorant to see that they should fucking vacate the viklaang seat when a viklaang person is standing right there. Some are too naïve to ask for their own right and others just do not care.

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