With increasing ridership, the varieties of passengers have also increased.
It is not long before I have started traveling in BRTS till Shivranjni to AIESEC office.
Here is a gist of some legendary BRTS passengers:
1. The Me-After-You: Their eyes are only stuck on butts of passenger sitting comfortably. They figure out most office goers (ones in formals) will get down on Shivranjni and stick themselves next to their seat, their hips perpendicular to the seat so that they don't miss a single chance to sit, once the passenger gets up.
Their movements are equivalent to Ninja.
2.The Pretty Young Woman: She is always dressed perfectly, be it in formals or her 'simple' Fab India Kurti. She has the perfect figure, long hair kept open regardless of the temperature in order to show-off her latest hair rebounding on which she spent half her salary.
She clutches costliest phone available with her slim crystal-manicured hands.
Men peep for her glance from every possible angle. She gets down on Himmatlal park or Jhansi ki rani. End of the love story.
3. The Angry Birds: He/She can pick up fight at any damn moment for any damn reason! She points he teased her. He argues back with 'I would have misbehaved with a younger and more beautiful girl than you'. Everybody in the bus gets their bunch of entertainment. Intellectual people get-in and solve the fight.
4. The lost puppy: He/She is the innocent first timer, who made life's biggest mistake by stepping into BRTS that starts from Anjali or Danilimda Cross Road. Trust me, you'll die suffocating!
"Pan ee toh A.C hoye che ne?" Yes, A.C. hoye che and hence you get the most natural mock-tail of aromas: (i) Sweet Sweat (ii) Pungent Sweat (iii) Salty Sweat (iv) Deodorant sweat (v) Chameli hair-oil smell (vi) Different fart smells...and so on.
Yes, so this lost puppy wonders and carefully listens to all the announcements made in Hindi, Gujarat and English. Most of the times he/she forgets getting off at Danilimda char rasta for Narol bus and hence reaches Maninagar.
5. The love-birds: They enter from the same stop. She has her face covered with bandhani duppatta so that none of her relatives/friends/parent's friends etc. recognize her. He still is all eyes on her. They hold each other's hands, hush some jokes/flirts. He still keeps looking at her. I am sure he knows the exact number of Bandhani dots on her duppatta.
6. The Cool: They are a mall. Head to toe, everything speaks of brands. Nike/reebok shoes, Fake PUMA t-shirts, salman khan style RayBan goggles, Shahrukh khan chains, Murgi styled spikes...they are the cool ones. Style it up. Travel in BRTS. Life is awesome.
They wear goggles even in A.C. BRTS. I don't know the concept.
7 The little pole -dancers: These are under-aged passengers who travel for half-ticket with their mothers. They catch the yellow-pole in the BRTS like it is their oxygen. With their mummy's shouting on them, they suddenly discover the sense of oneness with the yellow pole and take 'n' number of chakkars till you die of nausea by merely seeing them.
8. The NID/IIM/Xavierites: They can wear whatever they want and no one will question them. You only admire. Ear-plugs, i-pods plugged in, Amish Tripathi's Shiva Triology in their hand, they are the mordern localites.
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