The 22 Types of People You Come Across in a Mumbai Local Train

The 22 Types of People You Come Across in a Mumbai Local Train

 1.) The Social Servicer:- This person is the one who will keep playing the songs on his phone on a loudspeaker mode. He feels it to be his duty to serve others by making them listen to the blaring music from his loudspeaker...Oops, phone I meant! “The Joy of Giving” as they say!

2.) The Style Addicts:- Ignorant to the war-zone around them, these people are the style divas of the Mumbai locals. They will hold their bags in the most stylish positions or their duppattas in the perfect style or their glares mounted perfectly over their heads. ALWAYS.

3.) The Backpackers’:- The people with those huge backpacks/ or school bags. They are the people who get into the train most comfortably, but turn out to be the biggest dismay for the other travelers! That huge backpack eats up the place of a whole two person, not to mention the hard blow it gives you when it even barely touches you. 

4.) The Phone Addicts:- I must call them the EXTREME phone addicts, as they fish out their phones from their pockets/ bags, even in a tremendous crowd & immediately start WhatsApping or calling up  somebody. 

5.) The Royal Highness:- These are the typical clan who have a “Oh-don’t-touch-me” labels affixed all over them. You will find them wincing at every touch & giving you nasty looks when you bump into them. & they still choose to travel by the second class. Get a life, your highness! People are battling for a place on the footboard, & you want a royal untouched treatment!

6.) The Au-Faits :- You will find them juggling with their newspapers or fat novels, in spite of not being able to stand erect! The have a deep sense of responsibility to read & hold their newspapers in a perfect manner. Negligent to the surrounding, negligent to the constant pull & push! “With great knowledge comes great responsibility”, I get it!

7.) The Makeup Maniac:- No matter how crowded it is, this girl will always find a meager space in the shit crowded train, & start applying a Compaq, a lipstick & so on! Girl, it’s called Face, not a Coloring book!

8.) The Fatsos:- That extremely fat lady, who pushes away everybody in her way, oblivious to the strangulation caused to the fellow passengers by her presence. (No Offence).

9.) The Shopaholics’:- No matter how crowded a train is, you will find these people buying stuff from the vendors on board. They do not care if the people (or themselves) do not have a place to move, they just want to get their hands on that glittery clip or those half-dead veggies!

10.) The Gamers:- Just like the phone addicts, these one are gaming addicts. The moment they get a hold of their phones, you will find them playing Temple Run or Candy Crush, oblivious to the chaos around them. All the TRAIN’S a Stage & I am the GAMER!

     11.) The Curly Haired Girl:- You will always come across one such a girl who has vividly curly short hair & has either left it open or tied it up in a bouncy high pony. Girl, that hair is going into my nostrils & my mouth & it surely ain’t tasting that good!

12.) The Arrogant Bitches- They are the biggest annoying females existing in this world! They get into the train & swear at everybody as if they own the train. They will instruct every single person on board, genuinely believing that nobody else EVER travelled in a crowded train till date.

13.)The Pretty People:- These people ALWAYS look good! They just never ever look exhausted even at the day’s end; neither do they look slogged by the piling up crowds. They just look perfectly pretty, with the perfect ironed clothes (even at the day’s end), perfectly set hair & that perfect fair skin. While we just look drugged! Perfection at its peak, you say!

14.) The Chitter Chatter, Goes on with the Patter:- These people are usually in a group of 4 or above & you will find them chit chatting with a great animated enthusiasm. They have their places reserved & they can go on talking to each other in their over-the-top-enthusiasm throughout the journey.

15.) The Calm Contenders:- They are the ones who stay calm without uttering a single word, no matter if they get pushed over or pulled at. They just keep moving. Or standing. Or whatever that they do. They just look calmer than the calm waters!

16.)  The Foot-Board Idiots:- These are the ladies who find the train footboard the best place to flaunt their lovely long hair or their pretty duppattas! Seldom do they know that the person next to them isn’t a hero & definitely won’t love the feel of your hair in her/ his face!

17.) The Unorganized Clan:- These are the most unorganized people who lack any sense of sociality. They will carry 10 bags with them, oblivious to it creating a problem to the others around. They will hold out their wet umbrellas over your head, completely unaware that the umbrella is dripping a whole lot of water over you.

18.) The Door Blockers:- These are the most maddeningly annoying people! They get in into the train at the first stop & stand at the door, blocking it, up to the very last stop! & to make things worse, they keep getting down & in at every single station. Things to increase the agony, you say!

19.)  The Stinks:- These are the people who stink. Like really STINK. No other word or explanation required! They (or their sweats) just stink so much that you experience a faint momentarily! Deo’s are getting too expensive, I get it!

20.) The Hungry Mongry:- These are the people who keep eating. All the while you are on board, you will find them eating. One after another dabba, one after the other packet! All they do is EAT, EAT & EAT!

21.) The Sleepy-Heads:- You will find them sleepin all the time. Be the train corwded, or be it empty. The first thing that they will do as soon as they get a place is SLEEP. Some of them master the skills of sleeping in trains & can sleep even while standing upright! No matter how many times you push off their dangling heads from your shoulder, they still manage to get their sweet sound sleep!

22.) The Misfits:- Undeniably, we all, who do not fit completely in any of the categories! We just travel, to reach our destination. Presenting none of the above characteristics, or getting into the skin of any of the above at times. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us” defines us truly!

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