The Grand Mysore Trip

We all reached (in two parts - me and the rest) the KSRTC bus stand at 6:15 AM on sunday.. (i was there the earliest!!) .. saw a volvo standing there and a biiiig line.. all i could do was go and stand in the line.. and all i could see was a few people eating a sandwich and walking away from the counter taking the tickets...!!!
then after about half an hour, ratika, pragya and suruchi arrived.. that brought a smile to my face (good to see that now i am not alone.. and now someone can go and get some food!! .. jus kiddin!! ) .. finally we get tickets for a volvo at 7:30.. and we rush to the volvo standing there.. we see that the whole bus was full.. so we rush out as there were two more volvos standing behind it.. we nicely go and take some nice seats in the almost empty volvo.. now comes the ticket checker.. or conductor or whatever!! .. he asks for the ticket, and i proudly put my hand in my pocket and give him a printed ticket.. the conductor looks at me as says "Five!!!" .. i said.. "yes.. we are five" (There was Ms. Chulbul, ratika's colleague, with us also).. his expressions changed and he angrily threw the ticket on me.. i was really confused and looked at the ticket.. and it actually was a Rs. 5 ticket (instead of the Rs. 700 ticket i just got)... now i understand why Mr. conductor got so angry.. i had come to the ksrtc bus stand by bus in the morning.. there also, i had got a ticket for Rs. 5 for myself.. that explained it all...!!! i grinned.. and took out the other ticket lying nicely in my pocket.. and gave it to him smiling.. but instead of getting a smile back from him, all i got was an angry look.. and he pulled the ticket from me as if i had stolen it from him!! .. and the next thing i see is the rest 4 people staring at me in awe!! i had to explain everything to them to bring shouts of laughter out of them!!
thats not all for the beginning..
the conductor comes again.. this time, with a printed sheet.. he takes my ticket and tells us to get down!!! and explains me that the ticket with 5 seats which i had - it was for the previous bus.. and it has to be that way.. now the bus had gone.. and we cannot board this bus.. as this bus has its own quota of tickets already booked!!.. Now, Suruchi didi came into picture.. the conductor was not ready to listen to me.. he atleast calmly listened to what she said.. and we came to a solution.. he said that the ticket booth will write something on the backside of the ticket and we can board the next volvo..
finally, all said and done, we boarded the volvo, and didnt breathe till we were rolling!! phew..!! good start that was!!
the subsequent two days went by soo fast.. we did a lot of sight seeing.. nidhi and kishore joined us later that day.. and chulbul left us as soon as we reached mysore.. I must say she was pissed off with my pjs ;) ..
the best that i liked was the waterfall in which we walked down the croocked steps.. it was too good.. and the round boat ride (the boat which is there in the Roja song) .. food was not so special.. but ok.. vrindavan gardens were also cool..
overall, a good experience, and a good change from the routine!!

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