Money Talks!

I was in Bangalore last week. I didn’t fly to Bangalore as it makes no sense to me. My home from airport is an hour drive and check in 1 hour and as always the regular flight delays 1 hour and the flying time an hour and the drive to Cantonment where I had to go is another 1.5 hours with Bangalore traffic, which is 5.5 hours. Whereas if take a train, preferably shatabdi, I would reach in 5 hours net!

I didn’t book my tickets as the WL was 178 something. I went early, was waiting for the TTR, as soon as he came I saw a lot of people surrounding him, for places. The AC attendant came and asked me to sit inside and asked me 250 more, I gladly agreed and I sat, remember I had only an open ticket, not valid in shatabdi. After a while say 2 hour later the TTR came took 250 from me and I reached Bangalore.

I felt very very guilty doing it though. Not that I bribed to get things done, but I saw a lot of people who had WL tickets failing to get in. felt so guilty to make this decision.

I WILL NEVER USE MONEY AS A TOOL TO GET AHEAD OF PEOPLE!