Sights to see - Mumbai Local

The floor is strewn with papers and food items like the remanants of a large party. As the wind blows the papers russle and food leftovers roll around. People who mistakenly step into the area shrug with disgust and then indifference. After all they are also here as contributors to the mess. The mess is for them to make and for the cleaners to clean. They were not responsible for cleaniless of someone else's place!So they put thier feet up in disdain and leave their footprints on the opposite seats. Those seats don't belong to them either. So what do they care who uses the seats next?

Meanawhile, having seen the abundance of availability of food, creatures down the food chain have decided to make their home just there. A couple of rats,unknown number of roaches, spiders , ants and bacteria as well are well settled in this place. Once in a while - distant cousins, aunts uncles and various relatives visit from poorer environs. Once they see the abundance
available in this place - they are reluctant to ever leave. Some times even scrawny beggar boys come to plunder and share the loot.

This is heaven. This is the first class ladies compartment of a Bombay Local.

Now why only first class,you ask? And why not. Anywhere else sundry creatures would be crushed to smithereens by the stampeding populace. There is hardly enough room to breathe in there. Those that are not crushed die of suffocation and those still surviving die of starvation. Who is a brave man who when standing in a general compartment - can take out even the most miserly candy bar to eat? Especially while standing on one foot like a Yogi in his tapasya and holding on to his nieghbours shirt sleeves? So that rules out the availability of proper living conditions in the general compartment.

The general First class compartment too is similarly afflicted. There a man can just about stand on two feet. If he started pulling out eatables from his pockets he may end up in a fight with his
fellow-travellers. They will be in the danger of falling right out of the compartment if someone starts occupying so much space for himself.

So it is in the luxorius ladies first class compartment where ladies tired from their day at office and girls tired from chattering on their mobiles..relax..and take out the crunchy bhel - or vada pav and generously leave behind left-overs for the future. It is there that a police woman stationed to guard the public sits with her spinach and cutting board. Afterall which ruffian will
dare attack a ladies compartment guarded by a policewoman with a large kitchen knife?

It is there, that when a shrieking lady locates a reptile or a rodent- all feet automatically go up on the seat in front. So if some lady asks you - what are the interesting sites to see in Mumbai- you know what to suggest! Afterall, one of the most intriguing places where you can expect the unexpeted - is the first class ladies compartment in a Mumbai Local.