MY EXPERIENCE WTH TRUTH

TMY EXPERIENCE WTH TRUTH. 
     
                  Very recently I had been to Bhubaneswar in connection with some of my personal work
I booked my return journey by Puri express the next day night. On that day the train arrived at the station in time and I boarded the train and occupied the allotted lower berth in the 2nd a\c compartment .Another gentleman boarded the compartment,got his berth number tallied from his ticket and settled on the upper berth.He even brought out his dinner packet and started munching it with a lot of apparent satisfaction as evident from his half closed eyes.

By this time the train started moving with a jerk and the gentleman made a soliloquy to the effect Oh the train started 10 minutes before the schedule time. I could not keep mum and remarked no sir ,it started right in time He again looked at his watch and shot back your watch is running fast.
Then he asked me at what time the train is expected to reach Mumbai! With lot of anxiety I swallowed the remaining saliva to make my throat  wet and replied sir this train is supposed to reach Howrah(Kolkata) tomorrow by 7 am.The gentle man gave me a caustic look and with a circustic smile hanging loosely from the edge of his right side lips replied see how our railways have done the wonders through science.The lower berth is going to Howrah and upper berth goes to VT station but by the same train.They must have introduced it following the introduction of semi bullet train from Delhi to Agra.And to day it must be a trial run without any publicity.Mean while the ticket examiner arrived and it was found that the gentleman boarded the wrong train notwithstanding his birth number matched for obvious reasons.By that time the train arrived at Cuttack and I helped that gentleman to deboard the train with his countless bag and baggage. After everything was unloaded, I asked him innocently sir is it Delhi station?To which he replied with a thunderous explosion  IDIOT.some times the word idiot sounds so sweet in the ear that i like to hear it time and again.I L U