Damned day!

I seem to have jinxed myself when I said that trains run on time. Today my train was two hours late.

The signalling system went down today in Kerala and my train was stopped at an intermediate station. After waiting for the train to move for around half an hour, I got out and took a local bus to the nearest bus station. From there, I boarded a low-floor AC bus to Palayam. Then there was a traffic jam in the outskirts of the city.

When the bus was not stuck up in the traffic jam, its driver was driving it like a brand-new spacecraft. I actually understood how it would be to fly in space. ISRO could actually train astronauts in such buses.

And I landed in office around an hour and a half late. Luckily, everyone else was late too, thanks to the high dependence on Indian Railways.

By evening, the system was restored. But, by then, the damage had been done.