Everyday Life: Public Commute

Public commute is a hassle, be it in calcutta or in singapore....... The situation that there are so many people stashed so close to each other would be sexual on a lesser serious situation. Imagine men and women standing squashed together and swaying in a rythm and you get the idea. But we all know no one got laid through the bus or the train and its no swingers party up there.

Handlebars located high up are a disaster. Im sure the guy put those there did it without any forethought because speaking physics wise this turns a person into a huge pendulum and no one wants a pendulum oscillating next to him or her. As the bus swerves through corners and as people try desperately to stay still they occasionally knock against their fellow passengers and get back threatning or disturbed glances in return.

Suppose someone from a hypothetical universe where all is good comes to this earth and enquires about the 7 deadly sins....I think there wont be a better apt place than a public bus to demostrate them.

Here they are:

Sloth: The most obvious one of them, there are people refusing to walk two bus stops and they will rather wait for a bus for 15 mins rather than walk which will take them 10 mins. If these people never took the bus, the buses would have been emptier and people happier.

Greed: Wars are fought over land, over women and over religion. But all conflicts in the bus are related to seats. Suddenly seats become the most valuable item ever and its not like people dont have them. There are plenty of them lying empty in everyones house but still everyone wants it in a bus.

Envy: The tangible emotional tension among commuters is over nothing but empty seats. Maybe two of them "deserve" it and I am calling it "deserve" because its jus a justification the human mind gives because he thinks that he deserves the seat because he has been standing next to it for the longest time. Now if one of the "deserving" candidates get the seat, there arises envy.

Pride: Again seat wise..someone who gets the best seat(the one next to the door or next to the window) is glowering with pride because he got the seat. I mean forget all the real acheivements in life like a good job or a good gf but all that guy has is an acheivement which everyone has acheived once in a while and which will only last for twenty minutes and less.

Gluttony: Gluttony is rampant throughout the bus. Be it the guy in the last seat gobbling up his food inspite of the no eating and drinking sign or the fat sweaty guy who gets stares of disgust from everywhere. Gluttony is a mortal sin in the bus.

Anger: One thing leads to another, first is the greed , then is the jealousy when some takes over your seat. You are in a bad mood then some guy trying to rush out of the bus accidently pushes u a lil too hard and there is suddenly this explosion from you. Voila, you have wrath pouring out of you.

Lust: Travelling in a bus full of bad looking people and sure a pretty girl gets up onto the bus and intices lust from you. Its usually the shorts wearing sporty ones or the sophisticated sexy female yuppies or the dressed in black goin out for party kinds. Lust is the only mortal sin which makes bus travel fun because there is no other situation where u can view all these different kinds together.