Girl A and Girl B planned on a trip to Bangalore from Chennai, just for a weekend. They wanted to meet up their guide at the IISc, but mostly they wanted to roam the streets of Commercial and Brigade road..(Girl A was the bigger clotheshorse and Shopaholic). They were going to stay at Girl A`s aunt`s place. However, in the last minute,as it usually happens,Kahani mein twist..and Girl A`s mom decided she was coming along too, to meet the Aunt and catch up with family gossip and other such stuff...much to the girls` chargin.
So,all planned and they are off. The bad part of it being tht girl B suffered a bad bout of food poisoning and was throwing up all of saturday & sunday but refused to stay put at home and went about the shopping trip and the perfunctary "meeting the professor".
Come sunday night, the girls and the mom go to get their train back to chennai. They get into the train and find their seats. A man and his family come up and say that the seats are theirs. Girl A...(the "trip manager",self proclaimed of course), insists that he is in the wrong compartment. Poor man is baffled and goes away.
By then, the train pulls out of Blore station. And the TT comes by with the man who was sent away by Girl A.
To cut a long story short, Girl A-the impeccable-trip-planner read the tickets wrong and they are on the wrong train (but still on one going to chennai, thankfully!)!!!And they are out of Banglore and they missed their actual train!!!For a fine, and much persuasion by the Girl A, mom and co-passengers (Girl B is pretty dehydrated and tired after the illness), the TT let them share seats. Girl A given a good lecture by Girl B (who`s perspective has not been lessened by the absence of nourishment and the loss of fluids) about the different options available, what they could still do etc etc & by her her mom for her carelessness...and they all take turns in sleeping on the berths.
What was the outcome of this incident??
For many months and years later, Girl A swore (and still does) that she was sure she booked them on the train that they actually travelled in. Girl B for all her part made sure she pulled Girl A`s legs as much as possible adding all possible spice to the incident and never let her live it up. It was all not too new for Girl A who was already a good target for all the teasing that went on in the chemical department and hence it was just one extra reason she was teased and did not bother much about it.Mom was distraught that her daughter was so careless and wondered if that reduced her matrimonial marketability.But her worries were unfounded as everyone came to know much later.
But about 5 years later, Girl (Woman is more like it) B blogged about it.
gosh ... i feel bad for girl A ... and then you go and rub it in by blogging about it ... tut tut ... sensitivity my dear child ... some sensitivity here?! :P
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