Comedy Show in Bus Today -- Hosted in MTC Route 5A

While travelling to my MBA III Semester contact programme today morning, I witnessed a very peculiar incident in the bus. Fortunately, I got the 5A Extension, which I can best harness by changing the bus at Guindy and then to Anna Nagar -- Thirumangalam, the class venue. No later than the bus crossed Sembakkam, a couple boarded the bus. The bus, by virtue of serving a significant long distance, has very limited stops and also limited time at each of its stop, including those at terminuses. Inspite of this and more frequencies, you can always find this bus overcrowding.

This guy, was trying to bid adieu to all relatives along his wife. The driver got irritiated and he lightly pressed the gear to indicate that the bus is starting. This was after repeated warnings from the conductor to ask him to come up but his requests were falling into deaf ears. The moment the gear was applied, this guy, who was immersed in his conversations, amidst the boarding transaction in the bus, slipped a step but managed to stay there, thanks to the driver who instantly rolled back and applied a soft brake.

This lit the fight and he showered all types of abuse on the driver and conductor for no faulf of thiers and he wasting thier time. It was indeed so kind gesture of the conductor that even when he was shouting, he did'nt retaliate him but tried to pacify him so much. Interestingly, the wife was scolding him for not coming up after boarding the bus and I think he was afraid to rebuke at her and hence showering abuses at the poor conductor chap. The couple almost became the laughing stock and the role model comedy show for the entire journey for all the passengers since they were shouting, barking and wailing almost till Pallikaranai.

There is also one another moral I  that can be learnt from this incident. There should be a line of demarcation between personal fights and how to adjust to public places. There were chances that the guy had some personal tussle with his fight (which was significantly visible from the continuing scoldings from her in the bus) and his showering of his emotions at a different person (in our case, the poor victim was the innocent bus conductor of Route 5A).  I had a similar encounter sometime back. A HR of the company called SakSoft, called me during a Saturday. He was telling about some domain and I understood clearly that he had shortlisted my resume under a wrong skillset/candidate profile. But when I tried to clarify him source and more information, he was abusing me using unparliamentery words and banged the phone down. I reported this promptly to the organization, who scheduled and investigation and found out a similar reason like the above.

Though a bit intimidating, I think these people serve at least to entertain others, at least to consider and convey the message in a more lighter vien. What do you say?