I was suppose to go to chennai for an event being organized by my organization. Feeling of excitement and fear had engulfed me about being able to discharge the responsibilty bestowed upon me. Event was on friday,but I was suppose to leave Bangalore on Friday as few other people had already reached Chennai to make necessary arrangement.
I was suppose to be accompanied by Christo for Chennai trip. We got out ticket on Thursday. It was then that we came to that we are going by Shatabdi express, an express train, it will depart Bangalore at 4.30 pm and reach Chennai by 9.30 pm. Office people who did travel by Shatabdi some time back told us that snacks would be provided during the course of journey.
We reached station on time by 4.10 pm, train was on time. While at station I told christo, I get vomiting sensation if we travel backward especially in AC coach. In return Christo told me he also suffer from same situation in such condition. We were praying that we don’t seat in the direction expected by us. Finally train arrived, we settled ourselves in our respective seats.
Immediately well dressed coach attender served us a bottle of water, which I forgot to buy. 15 mins later appy was given to us, hardly had we finished it we received “sandwich, samosa and sweets”. Christo got engaged in his work and I decided to take rest for some time. After an hour we were given soup along with bread stick and butter. This was served to by 6.30 pm, we thought, it would be the end, now we won’t b given anything.
But to our utter surprise, we were served dinner by 7.30 pm. It was too heavy, felt like we were in some restaurant and had ordered dinner. By 8 pm we finished our dinner and decided to say no to any further serving as we were full. Didn’t know how the time passed by and we reached Chennai. Then we realized that we didn’t face the problem of vomiting as our seats were in backward direction.
What we enjoyed the most was the timely food served to us. If we are served eatables in this manner at home, definitely will put on weight . Attender’s of the coach pampered all the passengers, which make the journey most memorable
