*This can happen only in our Bombay....no where else. Readon.....*

*This can happen only in our Bombay....no where else. Read on.....*

Only local train passengers in Bombay will know how helpful commuters
try to be......  Last week, a hapless victim fell prey to the over
enthusiastic Bombay's local train commuters.

Our hero, a man from Pune, wanted to go to Matunga, but as luck and
Trains would have it, boarded a fast train not halting at his
destination. He panicked on realizing his mistake but by then the local
had started moving. On seeing his plight, a sympathetic co-passenger
decided to come to his rescue.

It seemed that he had been commuting by that particular train (6:03 pm
Kasara Fast) for the past 6 years and had noticed that the train always
slowed down just before Matunga station and crawled at a snail's pace
while passing through it. He told the man to jump out of the running
train as it slowed down and that with a little bit of fleet-footedness,
he would make it safely on terra firma. However, knowing the man's
inexperience, he added some words of caution:

"Keep running the moment you jump or you'll fall. Just keep running." He
stressed the word "running" lest the man not know the laws of motion.
The train did slow down just before Matunga station and at the prompting
of His mentor, our hero jumped out of the train and started running as
if allHell had broken loose.

What he didn't realise, of course, was that he was running parallel to
the train instead of running away from it. Meanwhile, the train slowed
down further, so that the man was running faster than the train. In the
process, he reached the door of the next compartment and the footboard
commuters there pulled him in thinking he was trying to board the train!

To his agony, the train picked up speed and sped past Matunga and his
new co-passengers started to congratulate him on how lucky he had been,
until he told them that they had actually undone what he had done with
great difficulty.

Those standing at the door of his "ex-compartment" had witnessed the
whole drama and just couldn't stop laughing at the poor man's situation,
while he grinned sheepishly!!!

Ae dil, hai mushkil, jeena yahaan,
Zara hatke, zara bachke,
Yeh hai Bombay meri jaan
 
I had such a good laugh, cause I kept imagining this guy running J