A public transport journey with memories

Time is one of the most important things that exist in this world and as humans, we try to make the proper use of time as much as we can. The invention of transport was to reduce the time and increase the comfort of humans in case of visiting from one place to another place. In this current time, everything has developed a lot and we have various kinds of developed transport which is capable of saving a lot of time as compared to past time.

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Naturally we consider two kinds of transport and one of them is public transport and the another one is private transport. Considering my country's situation very few people can buy private transport like a car because it's too expensive and middle-class families never think to buy it. So public transport is the only way for most people because most of us don't have alternatives. Obviously, nobody is going anywhere by foot because it's only possible when the destination exists within a little range. Besides It will be time-consuming and we are not used to such kind of habit.

Both public transport and private transport have their own advantages and disadvantages. Using private transport is not cost-effective but it's good in case of comfort. Again using public transport is cost-effective but it's not so comfortable as private transport. I believe that from the environmental point of view using public vehicles is good because in that case using the same fuel or energy many people can visit one place to another and again it's good from the economic point of view of a country because fewer energy costs less. Many people may not be able to understand it but actually, that creates a difference from an economic and environmental perspective.

I belong to a middle-class family and obviously, I don't have any private transport and I always use public transport whenever I visit from one place to another place. I almost use public transport every day but today I am going to share one visiting experience which is memorable to me.

It was the time of my admission exam and the incident took place approximately more than 6 years ago. I am not a prepared person and it was for the first time I visited Dhaka for the first time. I didn't bother my relatives because I didn't want to disturb them in their daily routine. I needed to face two admission exams of two different universities in a single day and there was a gap between one exam to another exam approximately 2.5 hours. I reached my first exam hall without any kind of difficulties and finished the exam well. I was hungry at the time and after completing lunch I needed to go to another exam Hall and it was a little bit far from the first exam Hall. I had approximately 2 hours remaining to reach the hall and the destination was approximately 4 to 5 km if I can remember it correctly.

In my city where I grew up reaching a destination within 4 to 5 km takes not more than 32 to 35 minutes including traffic jams. But the capital of our country means Dhaka was popular for it's traffic jams and almost in every single point traffic jam is an inevitable thing. Instead of knowing the truth I took a sit in a public bus and started my journey towers to my exam hall because it was not possible for me to reach my examination Hall by walk. After 5 minutes I encountered a traffic jam and I started to panic because I heard that in Dhaka city at traffic jam stay for huge time and I need to reach within 2 hours. After 15 minutes I came down from the bus and started to work and I noticed the bus started to move means and again rode on the same bus. Again after 10 minutes, I faced another traffic jam and again I came down from the bus and the bus started to move and I rode on the same bus again. I was panicked and it was quite natural in such kind of situation but a passenger told me not to worry because, within a short time, I would reach my destination without facing any traffic jams in the upcoming voice, and that gave me relief for a little.

So I took my mobile in my hand and opened the Messenger application for chatting with my friends to feel stress-free but I noticed that the person who said beside me was reading my conversation secretly. I was looking at him, and he started to look in the other direction and a little bit later gave me a look like an innocent person. The same thing repeated it for several times but each time he was doing the same thing. I don't like someone reading my conversation even if there exists nothing confidential thing. I didn't know what he found interesting in my conversation and he was very eager to read the conversation. He was so smart that I was never able to catch him directly but I decided to teach him a lesson. A funny idea came to my mind at that time 😅.

I said to my friend in conversation " There are a suspicious character besides me. He is looking at my conversation again and again and he is a shameless person. So giving him a lesson is very important. So come to the next bus stop with some other friends. I want to give him tight. I am sending his picture to you also to recognize early". I knew the person also read my conversation and exactly at that time I opened my selfie camera and tried to take him also in frame like I was taking selfies 😅 and that person immediately stood up and went outside of the bus like his destination already arrived. I knew he became afraid after reading my conversation 🤣 . So I told the person everything without saying a single word and threatened him using tricks 🤣. I knew that he could do nothing because if he wanted to do anything about it he needed to accept that he read my conversation secretly. So it was a win-win situation for me.

To be honest that friend of mine was so far from me that he couldn't reach the next bus stop. I started to smile when I saw that person few away from me😅 like a thief. I don't know how such kind of naughty thought came to my mind and it made me laugh and helped me to overcome my panic situation 😅. After reaching to my destination I faced my another exam.

It was one of my memorable public transport journeys which I will never forget because it was both a panicky and funny incident that happened in the journey.