it so happened that when i was 12 years old i thought of traveling in a train without a ticket
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It so happened that when I was 12 years old I thought of traveling in a train without a ticket. I thought in crowd and commotion I would be able to travel scot-free; but I was wrong. As the train was about to reach the station the ticket inspector came into our coach to inspect the tickets and catch the passengers travelling without ticket. Seeing him I panicked and hid in the toilet. After a gap of 15 minutes I came out. Unfortunate as I was, the ticket inspector was still in the coach. He came to me and asked me to show ticket. I did not have any ticket. The ticket inspector got angry; he called the security man to take me to the police station.
A very kind man was watching the scene from the beginning. He came to my help. He said to the inspector, “Leave the boy; I will pay all the money he owes you.” He paid him ₹ 500/- which included fare as well as the fine. I thanked the kind man and promised to repay him.
The gentleman said I could repay him by helping anyone in need anytime later in life. I kept his words in my mind and moved on.
This is a story of what happened when I was 12 years old and thought of travelling in a train without a ticket.
It so happened that I was 12 years old. I thought of traveling in a train without a ticket. This thought came to me when I reached the ticket counter. There was a huge queue and I did not want to waste time waiting for my turn to buy the local train ticket.
So, I headed straight to the platform. The train came in a few minutes and I got in hurriedly. The train crossed two stations and no one came to check our tickets. I had a good laugh to myself at the thought of how I was lucky and was able to travel the way I wanted. I was supposed to get down at the seventh station.
Suddenly, at the fifth station, the ticket examiner got in. He seemed soft-spoken. I saw him ask everyone to show the ticket. When he reached me, I didn’t know what to do. He asked me and I had to tell him the truth. He gave me a glare and then asked me for my father’s number. I started crying badly. The ticket examiner looked at me and told me to get down at the next station with him. When we got down, he asked me where I was headed to and got me a ticket for that place. I learnt my lesson and resolved to never travel in a train without a ticket.