Mumbai Style.....:) The mega polis of Mumbai holds many a challenge for the 'rookie' who lands here unaware of the hurdles and challenges that he or she might have to face.
A recent incident saw one such hapless victim falling prey to the overenthusiastic nature of Bombay's local train commuters. Bosco our hero, from Goa, wanted to go to Marine Lines, but as luck and trains would have it, boarded a fast train not halting at his destination. He panicked on realising his mistake but by then the local had started moving. Co-incidently another Goan passenger, seeing his plight, decided to come to his rescue. It seemed that he had been commuting by that particular train (6:03 pm Borivili Fast) for the past 6 years and had noticed that the train always slowed down just before Marine Lines station and crawled at a snail's pace while passing through it. He told the fellow Goemcar to jump out of the running train as it slowed down and that with a little bit of fleet-footedness, he would make it safely on terra firma. However, knowing the man's inexperience, he added some words of caution in Konkani: Udi marlea uprant daumvot rau re, na zalear khala podtolo..daumvot rau "(Keep running the moment you jump, or you'll fall. Just keep running.") He stressed the word "running" lest the man not know the laws of motion. The train did slow down just before Marine Lines station and at the prompting of his mentor, our hero jumped out of the train and started running as if all hell had broken loose. What he didn't realise, of course, was that he was running parallel to the train instead of running away from it. Meanwhile, the train slowed down further, so that the man was running faster than the train. In the process, he reached the door of the next compartment and the footboard commuters there pulled him in thinking he was trying to board the train! To his agony, the train picked up speed and sped past Marine Lines and his new co-passengers started to congratulate him on how lucky he had been. Kopalacher ath marun he said....Aiiiiih Saiba!... and then told them that they had actually undone what he had done with great difficulty. Those standing at the door of his "ex-compartment" had witnessed the whole drama and just couldn't stop laughing at the poor man's situation, while he grinned sheepishly. Hem zaun assa Mumboi mojea bhava.......:) Edward Verdes Source...MangloreanCatholics forum
