Monday, July 18, 2005

Its Really Too Hot And Humid!

Few weeks back, when I had to come to Islamabad from Lahore, I went to Daewoo terminal in Lahore. I used to get my seat reserved a day before as to avoid any inconvenience. That day, when I reached Daewoo terminal, there was more people than my expectation. Perhaps due to the reason that vacations had been started in schools, so, most of the people were moving towards Islamabad or beyond Islamabad to northern areas away from the hot and humid weather of Lahore. It seemed that all the people of Lahore are going to Islamabad. Anyways, I went to waiting lounge and wait for the time to get the ticket. My seat is reserved in the ordinary luxury bus and scheduled to depart from Lahore at 11:30. One VIP bus was scheduled at 11:00 and its destination was also Islamabad. (The fare of VIP bus was more than the fare of luxury bus.) When I reached at the counter to purchase the ticket, I saw one long queue and many small queues around it. I stood at the end of long queue. After some time, I came to know that VIP bus that had to go at 11:00 got some problem and now the Daewoo administration arranged another bus for them but that replacement bus is only luxury so the extra fare to each passenger must be refunded. That was the cause of rush there. I also got my ticket and went to the bus. There were two buses labeled Lahore to Islamabad. One was going at 11:30 and other was scheduled at 11:35. My bus was going at 11:35. When I entered the bus, its great surprise to me that its was VIP bus and had only 37 seats. Luxury bus contains 45 seats. 45 tickets had been issued and passengers having seat numbers from 38-45 were looking at each other. What happened to those, I don't know because then the bus started its journey but one thing for sure that if Daewoo administration thought not for long but just for a moment before taking any step that the bus scheduled at 11:30 was ordinary and they let it go according to the schedule and next bus at 11:35 was VIP and it could be an easy replacement for all the passengers who had taken VIP bus tickets. No need for refund and they also allowed the ticket holders of luxury bus to travel in the VIP. Its really too hot and humid in Lahore nowadays and even personals in Daewoo administration couldn’t escape from that.

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