My Bus Experience

This is my experience in my bus with a girl sitting beside me.

The bus journey to the office is a horrible and a tedious journey for people like me who used to woke up late in the morning. I’ve to catch my bus @ 6:40 in the morning. I can’t even imagine to get up so early even during my examination days. But things are changed in my life. I’m running after the pay that the companies are paying for. If you have no companion especially a girl, in your office journey, imagine how the journey will be when it took more than one and half hours to reach my office. Daily it looks like I’m half way to my home town and returning back.

There are only few girls in my bus unlike other buses. I’m not sure whether it’s my luck or anything, no girls will be seen in my area when I’m in any place. The bus is not also an exception. For nearly two weeks, I watched the all people in the bus. All the girls (some 4-5) who are boarding in the bus at the starting point (FYI I’m also boarding at the starting point) will occupy the window seats. This rule is applicable for the others also including myself. Among those only two of them are good looking. As expected they are accompanied by their… I don’t know the relationship...may be their friends. For the next three stops, there are only men who used board the bus. On the next stop, three girls used to board the bus with other men. The rest of the stops (3 stops) only women are boarding the bus.
One day, till the 5 stop where the last men are boarding, there is no one who wished to occupy the seats next to me. I’m sitting in a three seater. At times I used to wonder why people are so scared or avoid for sitting beside me. Even guys are doing the same thing. They came near my seat and they searched for some other seats where ever I’m seated. Usually one guy who joined with me gave me company in the 5th stop. He is my bus buddy. He will give me the company in the evenings also. So I prefer to sit in two seater in the evenings as I can go and catch the bus early in the evenings.
When I’m sitting close to the driver seat, my bus buddy will think and then he came to sit next to me. He used to go to sleep when ever he boarded the bus. My driver will always blow the horn just like playing a piano. So he didn’t get that deep sleep when he is close to the driver seat.
That day, he is standing at the bus entrance and raised his eyebrows just like asking me. I showed off my hands to go and occupy the seats on his wish. So he went and occupied one of the back seats. So when the bus started from the stop, no one will be sitting beside me in the three seater. I’m happy for one reason because for the next stops to come only girls will be boarding and I’m eagerly waiting for the 2nd next stop where the second good chick in my bus will board.
In the next stop, a married girl boarded. I didn’t look on her and I looked on the other side of the window. She came to my seat and sit in the corner seat of the pathway. But she is trying to look around for another seat by getting up from the seat. This made me to grab her attention. Her act brought me a sudden urge of anger inside me. What am I going to do with her when she sits in my seat? She is sitting in the corner. She will not be affected by me by any means.
Literally I started to ask her about her act but I stopped controlling my anger. I’m reading some messages from Vivekananda. That stopped me to concentrate more on reading rather than this kind of nonsense acts. Is the way I sit in the bus affects the others? I normally sit in the following manner.
# I’m wearing a kerchief in my head to protect my hair hitting my eyes and ears when I tried to get some sleep
# I always keep me windows wide open
# I always fold the cuffs of the full sleeve to make it 3/4th (even in office) but in the bus journey I will raise my sleeve to more or less looks like a half sleeve.
# I used to unbuttoned the first one or two buttons from the neck depending upon the sweat percentage.
# My legs are not folded within the particular seat. At times I relax my legs by entering my front seat and forming a shape similar to (). But I swear, it never affected any person sitting adjacent me. As I’m lean I can manage to fit within 3/4th of the given seat

If a person is sitting like this it doesn’t mean that he is a prank or a fashionable guy. Everyone sit with their comfortable positions and postures. I’m comfortable with all these postures. That’s it. I know a guy who used to smoke before he boards the bus and he always expels his smoke to his shirt pocket. During the bus he used to smell the pocket. One day I sit with him in the return journey.

Am I giving that much trouble to the neighbor seat takers? Am I looking that much freak or scary to fear around? And am I looking that much ugly to not even to sit with me? I’m just sitting like a dead meat without any reaction and without any movements. This is my nature and I can’t just hide this just for other’s sake.

When the next stop came, the second good looking chick came and sits next to me. I’m very happy for all that happened from the morning is good for having this. I moved and adjusted myself so that she can sit comfortably. If it is any other concern, I have not even cared to adjust as I’m sitting in my seat properly. But here they are very strict in anti-harassment and other nonsense stuffs. So I’m bit nervous and moved. Now I’m sitting in only 3/4th of my seat.
Unlike other day, my journey to the office took some more long hours other than usual 1 hour and 15 minutes journey. As soon as she sits next to me, we caught up in the railway crossing. The gate is closed and we are in the gate for nearly 35 minutes. I made use of this opportunity to have a look on her in close up. To be frank, I’m having some fear in looking at her directly. So while I’m reading I just turned my eyes to the left side. Thank God she is sitting on left side and not on my right as my right eye is very weak. I can’t even see things that are close to me when it is on the right. I already know that she is wearing a nose ring in her small nose that exactly covers her entire nostril.
She is wearing a larger strap watch not like other girls. A brass or copper folded plate is covering her 3/4th of left hand. A white plastic folded and curled bangle (which I accidentally noticed in one of Malayalam porn films). Pantene shampoo smell (I know the brand for sure as I love the smell). Reading a Jeffrey Archer Novel (I don’t remember the name of the novel). Having a design hand bag which I saw nomads are frequently using (may be it’s a fashionable bag. I’m not aware of women’s fashion).
When the bus is waiting in the railway gate, hope everybody is cursing the railway department. She drank Amul Masti Butter milk. “Night Beer adichitu ippo vandhu more adikura pola” I said to myself. She tapped her leg when she is reading the book. I donno what the funny mannerism it is. But I stepped further towards the window. I remembered Vivek saying in the film Run “Graduate body-inu thaechi correct pannalam-inu parkiya?”
When the bus reached the GST road, she closed the book and took her phone out of the bag and stated to type messages. When she typed, her right hand is always touching my left hand. Just want to say like Reema Sen saying in Chellamae “Erruma madae en mela muttama thalli nillu”. But I moved further without saying anything.
Now I’m sitting like my right shoulder on the window gap, resting my whole body weight on my left leg and I’m sitting only in 3/4th of my seat. Oh my God this is my worst and terrible experience I’d. I prayed god not to send me any more girls for the rest of the bus journeys.
When I reached the office, I felt that though people ignore me in one aspect but I’ve lot of comforts and freedom in other aspects. Though I traveled a long journey with the girl I liked, it is not giving me any happiness rather it teaches me a lesson. ACCEPT LIFE AS IT IS.
Now I’m feeling happy about my present life without girls, without nagging, without false adjustments and living my own life as I wish, enjoying my built in psycho characters.