The story of a new train.

This is the story of a new train which entered the platform for the first time. The train looked spick and span. The seats, the berths, everything from engine to last bogie of the train was new and dust free (from last bogie, I remembered that the last bogie of the train is always marked with the letter 'X' which indicates that it is the last bogie and that there will not be any other bogie attached to it after this). By looking at the surroundings, the train got petrified because everything around it was filled with garbage and dust. The nearby trains were hideously laughing at her, for which it couldn't understand why they were laughing at her.

As soon as the train was on the platform, the passengers started getting inside the train. By this time, everything was extremely clean. As the passengers started settling themselves in the train, the cleanliness started to disappear. The train started observing people, who were destroying the tidiness of the train.

It saw people, who were writing rubbish on the seats and walls of the train. They were even plucking the sponge, cotton, and springs by cutting the seats with blade. When asked by the other passengers that why they were cutting seats, those fellows who were cutting the seats just replied that they were just doing it for fun.

The train was also filled with paan and gutkha (tobacco products) spitters. These spitters have not only spitted on the platform, but also started spitting in the train and started making the bogies look ugly. They don't even realize that if they are spitting from the windows on a running train, the spit is falling on the other passengers through the other window. The only thing these spitters know is that to put paan and gutkha in their mouth and spit it out after they thoroughly chew them. I don't know why they chew it because anyhow they are spitting it out. So, what is the need of buying these tobacco products at all.

Along with these spitters, there were these cigarette smokers, who were creating pollution clouds in all the compartments wherever they are seating. Other people started colliding with each other because of invisibility due to the smoke created by the cigarette smokers throughout their compartments.

Few people in the train were so dirty that they don't even flush the toilets. They feel as if they are the only people in the whole world who are in hurry and they don't even have time to just push the flush button. These kind of people make the whole train smell bad.

Finally, there were these ugly people who eat peanuts, bananas, etc., and throw the peel all around the place. Even if they eat a small chocolate, they throw the chocolate wrappers here and there. They want everything around them to be untidy and dirty. They make the whole place simply look like a garbage.

By the time the train reached it's destination, it realized why those fellow trains were hideously laughing at her. It never expected that it would become so dirty in the first journey itself.

Most of the people think that railway personnel are not maintaining the trains properly, but if everyone stops behaving badly and starts keeping the surroundings clean then everything would be neat and clean, as after all "Cleanliness is next to Godliness".

 

 

 

Fun Corner:

 

Teacher: Why are you late?

Student: Because I saw a sign.

Teacher: What sign?

Student: Go slow, school ahead.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spending a day without my smartphone (Phonelope)

One day it so happened that early in the morning when I woke up, I found that my smartphone was not working. So, I took my smartphone to get it repaired. The repair shop owner told me that it will take one whole day to repair it. So, I gave the phone and told him that I will come tomorrow to take my phone back. As soon as I left the repair shop, I started missing my smartphone. As I was so much attached to it that I even named my phone as, "Phonelope (Penelope)".

I was feeling as if I lost one of the essential parts of my body. I was so much addicted to Phonelope (my smartphone) that it became very difficult for me to spend even a single second without it. My day used to start with it and used to end with it. Yeah, it is so much true, I used to wake up only when the sweet music of the alarm from my smartphone used to wake me up and I used to end my day by setting alarm in my smartphone before sleeping.

I was never departed from Phonelope, my smartphone, since the day I bought it from the store. But on that day I was feeling a little bit frail without it. I was feeling as if one of my vital organs is missing.

I always had my Phonelope with me, I never left my home without it. I never wore a wrist watch as Phonelope was with me to show the time. I used to set the remainder and used to forget it, but Phonelope used to remind me of each and everything. I was able to see the news from various parts of the world with the help of Phonelope, just by clicking Google, YouTube, etc,. I used to receive information of each and everything that is going around the world. But, on that day, I felt as if I was detached from the rest of the world.

To fan the flame, people started asking me the time, started discussing about the breaking news of the day, and few others started asking me the score of a football match which was telecasted on the same day ( I was missing the match like anything).

On that day, I was totally lost. I found myself totally disconnected from the outside world. I had no clue of what was going around the world. I was unable to call my friends or family, I was not even able to text anyone.

On the very same day, I went to a grocery store to buy few items and found that, my mathematical skills have totally reduced. When I was in my high school, I was able to calculate the total amount of all the items which I used to buy, but on that day I realised that without Phonelope I cannot even calculate the amount of two to three items which I bought at the grocery store. Before Phonelope entered my life, I was easily able to connect with everyone by one way or the other, but on that particular day I found myself lonely and bored. This proves that how much I got addicted to my smartphone.

I went to sleep very early on that day, but woke up very late the next morning, as I did not set any alarm. As soon as I woke up, I got freshed up and went straight to the smartphone repair shop to know whether he repaired my phone or not. The shop owner completed the process and gave my smartphone to me. At that particular moment, I felt as if a dear one of mine has returned from ICU (Intensive Care Unit) that too happily and without any complications.  So after that day, I took good care of Phonelope and never left it alone even for a single day.