As usual, I was travelling to my office through a
public transport service and I was waiting in the mob that was rigorously
waiting for the bus to arrive. I too joined the club and as it was the morning
time, everything looked cool and the only exception was that the bus did not
come on time. I started looking around for other options but as it was early
morning, there were only few available. I decided to wait for another 10 to 15
minutes so that bus might come. I asked one of the guys waiting for bus that
did the bus come. Also asked him if we missed the bus but he said it is yet to
come. It is public transport so we will have to just wait and watch.
The time was running and in those 20 minutes the sun
started to shine brighter and it was heating up the climate as well. Every one
waiting for bus started wandering to and fro and the bus arrived in next 5
minutes. I was about to opt for other transport option and I was inside a
private cab. I saw all the people sitting in the cab jumping out so that they could
travel through the public transport. I too jumped out of that private cab and
rushed towards the bus for which I was waiting for about 25 minutes. As the bus
was empty it was sheer joy to grab the window seat and head towards toward the
office on that day.
Mean while the bus conductor arrived at my seat and
I gave him the exact amount of ticket which made him smile. At times, the bus
conductor does not have change of money which can be returned to every
passenger. In this way, in next 5 minutes the bus conductor ran out of change
money and he started asking exact amount of money for the ticket. Few
passengers genuinely gave the exact amount of money for the ticket and few started
questioning him about why he does not carry more change money. The bus
conductor said that, he always carries more money in the form of change but
today he felt short of it.
In this way, I observed that many people were
deliberately hiding their change of money and asking the bus conductor to
return more change. But I would like to mention that it was not a good time for
bus conductor and he was helpless as every passenger was asking for money in
the form of change. In this way, this incident revealed that it was a bad traveling experience for the bus conductor on that day. People should
understand that the bus conductor cannot step out of bus and ask the local
shops to give him change of money. We all need discover valuables while traveling.
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