Mobile

I attended my mother-in-law’s last rites which were performed in Kolkata. On the 10th of December I boarded the train, Sealdah Rajdhani to New Delhi. My train was at the right time.

Early in the morning I tried to contact my friend’s driver but found my mobile had no network coverage. I requested my fellow passenger to lend me his mobile but he coolly told me that his mobile too was not working. Suddenly a gentleman sitting opposite mine gladly handed me his mobile and I spoke to my friend and told him that my train was running at right time and to send the driver accordingly. When I reached New Delhi I found the driver was not present on the platform. I again took the help of my co-passenger who was waiting for his relative and called from his mobile to find out about the driver. He told me that he is standing outside the platform and requested me to take a coolie and come out as he was late and could not buy a platform ticket.

I called a coolie and we came out but I could not locate the driver. Outside any station, the place is always overcrowded and I tried my best to look here and there but at last, got irritated; where I am going to find him and all more my mobile was not working. Disgusted I told the coolie to take me to the nearest PCO so that I could call the driver. The coolie smartly put the luggage down and took out his mobile and told me to tell him the driver’s mobile number. For a moment I was taken aback but then I said to myself in these times mostly everyone carries a mobile with him/her.

The coolie rang up the driver and told him the place where I was standing and then the driver came up. Here my husband who was trying to ring me finally came to know that I had reached Delhi and was on my way back home to Noida.

My readers, what amazed me was the big heart of the coolie who took out his mobile. He could have kept quiet and taken me to the nearest PCO and charged extra money for the waiting etc.

A simple coolie proved that he was a gentleman at heart, a small kind deed of his got my problem solved.

Before ending I would like to write down----------supposed the same incident took place a good number of years back when we had no mobile, what would I have done then?

To the best of my knowledge, I would have then waited and waited, or maybe the coolie would have taken the money and gone to find another customer, I would have looked left and right and then finally taken a taxi and got back home.

Modern technology has brought us to be together and again has left us apart. Mobile has many good and negative points but thinking over the good always takes over the bad.