Burly brawl

Written on Saturday, December 31, 2005 by Rohan Koshy

Ok for those who live in mumbai this is not gonna be new but...
I went to mumbai to celebrate christmas and while returning home i was fortunate to take the mumbai local for an hour...This wasn't my first exp but this one was really good..

Ok so i'm carrying luggage so it's even more pleasant doing all this...i was quite looking forward to shoving people and cursing under my breath at people i'll never meet again so i prepared myself for it.The train comes whizzing by and already i can tell i'll have loads of people to curse..The train stops and i get shoved from
behind and so i return the favour by shoving the dude in front who does the same...

i get in somehow and in the anarchy that ensues i find place to hold myself straight up...only one person abused till now so i was pretty happy..Then the next station and then the next one and yeah here we go the whole planet wants to ride with me to
dadar...so bring it on i say...

There's a scene in LOTR part 2 where the king of rohan says"IS this it , is this all you can conjure Saruman" when at the start the uruk-hai are not having any effect and look like they're gonna lose cheap... and then they blow the wall to hell and i always say ki theoden ka popat ho gaya...

So i said the same under my breath to the mumbai local thinking i'm winning this utterly useless and time pass battle in myhead...And then bandra came.
We hit the motherlode now... the uruk-hai (read locals) came surging in ready to to tell me that i won the battle but not the war..In the movies there's always an arch nemesis to kill so i had one too..It was tall and obese had thinning hair and enough oil in that hair to single handedly run india for a day...I could also tell what it ate for lunch looking at the stained shirt so i hoped this battle wasn't mine..but the biggest heroes need the biggest challenges so i swallowed the red pill and jacked in...it came,shoved and conquered but when it wasn't looking it got shoved straight into me..round 1 and i stood firm... the train took off and the duel continues...i affectionately named it agent smith...


i was holding the thingy on the roof with both hands to prevent falling off with my bag in between my legs.But i fell trying to avoid serious humiliation... we all got squeesed together..i needed both my hands to hold on and was crushed on all four
sides.. however the worst was to come..as we reached another station the train lurched and caused smith to burp...and some of that pan and whatever it had for lunch sprayed straight into my ear.....
It was over and i had tried but spectacularly failed to keep clean...
Yuck...
But i did shove him on the way out...

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