The mega polis of Mumbai holds many a challenge for
> the 'rookie' who lands here unaware of the hurdles
> and challenges that he or she might have to face.
>
> A recent incident saw one such hapless victim
> falling prey to the overenthusiastic nature of
> 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 realising
> 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 all hell
> 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.
I couldn't stop laughing 
...funny but true. It's a skill trying to get in n out of the local trains in Mumbai, and not everyone can do it.
On 2nd thoughts for the IT geeks....it goes to prove that the requirements were incomplete !!!
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Reiki Grand Master
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Originally posted by sudesingh
I couldn't stop laughing
On 2nd thoughts for the IT geeks....it goes to prove that the requirements were incomplete !!!
India has to be THE only country in the world where kids are actually taught in school how to jump off a moving bus
(Remember - while getting off a bus, you should never jump parraell to the bus but should get down and keep running in the same direction as the bus is moving and slowly stop) 
Wonder if they'll teach the same thing about the Delhi Metro too
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Picture of a crowded Bombay Local Train
http://www.india.vc/maharashtra/mumbai/transport/
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You know you are a desi when ........ You spew forth the virtues of India, but don't want to live there...............You've never had a tanning salon membership
Location: Ottawa (Now in Bangalore)
Posted on: 26-04-06 19:07:34
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Originally posted by Loser
Picture of a crowded Bombay Local Train
http://www.india.vc/maharashtra/mumbai/transport/</font>
Ahem... Did you say he was travelling from Pune...? DOnt they have a slang for such "intelligent" ppl ?
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arey lana2005 kya yaadgiri dilwaili!
Train travel apla Mumbai mein solid hai! Churchgate se Goregaon rush hour mein! Ahaa, kya mazaa! Yaan ulta baju bhi!. Aur sweat of people in May heat!
Aah haahaa!
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hinglish zindabad
Quote:
Originally posted by sudesingh
On 2nd thoughts for the IT geeks....it goes to prove that the requirements were incomplete !!!
My take, requirements were complete but definition was not.
The designer missed out an important business rule. He defined "Run after you get off the train" it should have been "Run away from train after you get off the train. (Just kidding)
