"You know how hot it gets in here" was what I heard when I boarded the train. The next was "water is getting scarce here". Then time seemed to lose itself as we all started the routine of trying to make the jigsaw of all the luggage fit in the space provided. After the scuffle I found myself in a window seat.

And to prove the man wrong the A.C. started up and we all heaved a sigh of relief. Soon the banter was resumed and I looked out of the window. The train had begun its ritual of hootings and false starts. There as we passed by a train that had just come to a stop, I noticed a man who was relieving himself against the engine. Now I am not presuming he is a terrorist who is trying to deliberately sabotage the engine, but it does reflect a certain irony in demeaning the engineering marvel which will take him places!

For all the laymanship he may lay claim to, his conscience failed to register the fact that the engine was the sole reason the train moved. My cynicism says he was deliberately being stupid. And my intelligence says he was trying to prove a point. Take your pick..