The BRTS

BRTS (Bus Rapid Transport System) has reached almost every corner of Ahmedabad and near by. With increasing ridership, the varieties of passengers have also increased. 
Here is a gist of some legendary BRTS passengers, that will always stay:

1. The opportunity grabbers: 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.
Somebody gets up and they hurriedly move towards it like a raging tornado, only to realize that the other person got up to dust himself/herself. They see space next to the door, they rush towards it bumping into 2 others who were trying to do the same!

2.The Pretty Young Woman: She is always formally dressed, has a figure to kill for, long hair that is always left open in an attempt to show-off the hair colour/straightening on which she spent almost half her salary. She moves and you hear tinkles coming from her bag that makes up for the bling factor that is missing on her clothes. Her phone is tightly held in her hand and it is then that you notice the well manicured okra-shaped fingers. The men ogle at her. She doesn't give a fuck. End of the love story.

3. The Angry Birds: He/She can pick up fight at any damn moment for any damn reason! She puts her hankerchief on adjacent seat at Danilimda stop to reserve it for her friend who'd board from Kalupur. The bolder one picks the cloth and sits. 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 Shivranjini. They carefully hear to the announcements in all languages and are seen asking fellow passengers about which will be the next station. 

5. The love-birds: They enter from the same stop. She has her face fully covered with bandhani duppatta so that her relatives/friends/parent's friends etc. do not recognize her. He is all eyes on her. They hold each other's hands, hush some jokes/flirts. He 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,  PUMA t-shirts, RayBan goggles (in AC BRTS), Spikes...they are the cool ones. Style it up. Travel in BRTS. Life is awesome.

7 The little pole -dancers: These are under-aged passengers who travel for half-ticket with their mothers.While the mother keeps calling out to them, they suddenly find a sense of belonging to this yellow pole that doesn't match the pleasure of sitting on the mother's lap. They go round and round and round and... until you start feeling nauseated at the number of chakkars that they've taken.

8. The NID/CEPT/Xavier-ites: They can wear whatever they want, however they want to. You won't question their style, you will only admire them because they're the Gen-Y. iPods plugged to their ears, a book  in the hand, a set of spiral bound notes, unimaginable colors. Yes, they are NID/CEPT/Xavier-its. 

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