Unscheduled Task

How does it feel when your scheduled journey gets delayed by hours? I just faced such a frustrating night. Last time, it was perfect timing for us but this time it became a disaster. This is how life works perhaps. One time it's so perfect that you attempt another and it comes with a surprise, lol.

Our train was supposed to come at 8.00 pm and while tracking I saw it was running in delay for almost one hour behind. It was already 9.10 pm when our journey started. It took almost three hours more and it was already midnight. For the first time maybe I am in such a situation. You know, Dhaka is alive even when each and every single person out there is dead asleep. Day or night there is always a rush going on.

After almost ninety percent of our journey. There comes a station which is very close to our destination but the train isn't scheduled for any stoppage there. If it stops here, even if 50 people get down then trust me, it's saving more than 20 hours of them in total, that's a minimum. We were also praying for it to stop here, as it's already running late so that would be very kind enough to lessen the damage. There were multiple times when it didn’t stop and we just saw that passing by, can't complain though.

You know what? It stopped for just two minutes which saved me thirty minutes. Along with time, it saved three times the money that I had paid. Many people got down with satisfaction in their hearts and lots of prayers for the driver.

Notice one thing, those who would be traveling to the last stop, might curse this unscheduled two minutes of the stoppage by a lot. Even when I was once like this, unnecessary stops used to bug me a lot. But nowadays, I do pray for one, being selfish more or less. One stoppage can save a chunk of money and time for me and many others. In Dhaka city, the distance isn't covered like any other city. Here, traveling a distance of 2 K.M might take more than an hour on public transport. If you have money to spend five to six times more than that, then you might save some money for sure but that's a lot you know.

So yeah, it was fun and thrilling, lol. We weren’t sure and were looking through the window to see if it slowed down or not, when it did we grabbed our belongings and hurriedly got down.

That's it for today, have a great day,
Take Care!