Thanks to the economic downturn and the year end shutdown, got a loooong break for 11 days 🙂 . Came to Hyderabad and then thought of going to my grandmother’s place for two days. That’s when the problems started. The two day trip supposed to be a pleasant one turned out to be a back breaking nightmare 🙁 .
When going from Hyderabad, we would have almost missed the bus. Though we were 30 minutes before the departure time, the bus had wrong service number on it and we thought the bus hasn’t come yet. Just at the time when the bus was about to start without us, we checked with the conductor standing over there and that’s how we came to know that the service number was wrong but the bus was already there waiting for us. Now the condition of the bus could not be described. It appeared as if few pieces of scrap metal were welded together and wheels attached to it. After an hour of journey when the bus stopped for a break, the driver was saying that the bus was actually removed from service and because of shortage of buses, it was taken out of garage and put on service 😯 . That’s the plight of our APSRTC. We pay for what is supposed to be the best service (Hi-Tech) and what we get to travel is on a bus that was removed from service 🙁 . On top of that the driver was so rash and road’s condition so bad that we could not sleep for the whole night.
That’s one part of my story. The real problem started on our return journey back to Hyderabad. We got tickets in the last row of the bus and when we got into the bus that’s when we realized that the bus in which we came from Hyderabad was much much better than this one 🙁 . This bus was full of dust, seats weren’t good and window glasses broken. This was another bus straight out of the garage. When we asked the conductor about this, he didn’t even care to reply 🙁 . That’s the pathetic state of the buses and the employees. And after sometime in the journey, some creature was moving over my leg and I had no clue what it could have been. At one point of time, I was so vexed up that I felt like shouting at the driver and the conductor or go to a consumer court for such pathetic service. The whole night, I was not able to sleep and just wanted to get out of that hell asap 🙁 . My cousin who was along with me was saying Indians are know for their tolerance but this is like testing it to its limits 🙂 . The worst part is that we have no clue whom to complain or how to get this to the notice of concerned authorities. That reminds me of TIA (This Is Africa) which can now be safely modified to TII (This Is India) 😀 .
Had a similar experience when me and my family went to srisailam. I haven’t recovered from that to write it in my blog. Cheers!!
Try Bihar. I am sure you will start to like what you got 🙂
haha….gr888 😀
wow!! bus which was taken out of service 😮 ..
even I have a bad bus journey in my account .. it was mainly because of the co-traveler’s than the bus/service itself .. when I was traveling from Bangalore to Hyderabad .. bus started from koramangala around 7, reached Majestic around 8 and it was supposed to start to hyd around 8:30 or so but did not move until around 11:30 .. it was a very bumpy ride (road work + rash driving) .. main problem was with the cell phones .. using the cell in vibrate mode might be a little tricky with all the vibrations but I don’t understand why people don’t reduce the ring volume!! someone forgot to switch off his alarm that disturbed everyone else but that person .. it went off and then was on snooze and then went off again .. this repeated until someone actually asked that person to turn it off .. it was so annoying!! ..
I think people should show some concern for their co-traveler’s ..