A few months back, I was travelling in a train to Ahmedabad with my wife in the three tier A/C coach. The train had left Dadar station at 10.20 P.M. I and my wife were going to attend a family function the next day in Ahmedabad. I chatted with my wife till some time and then we decided to call it a day. Mine was the middle berth and hence I hopped on to it. My wife settled down in the lower berth. Within a few minutes, the rest of the passengers took their positions and went to sleep.
Suddenly in the middle of the night, my sleep was disturbed by some roaring sound coming from somewhere. I sleepily opened my eyes. It was a horrifying sound, something like “Khuwwaaaahhhh” “Khuwwaaahhh”.It certainly sounded like a lion had frequented the bogey, especially our compartment. I was now literally awakened by this huge nerve wrecking roaring sound. I looked down towards the lower berth where my wife was present and I saw that she too was awake due to the roaring sound. I whispered and asked her about the lion-ish roaring to which she replied that it wasn’t the lion-ish roaring, but lion-ish snoring. I was like WTH (What the hell?) No, WTF. Hehe, folks, I never swear :0))This lion was sleeping on the upper berth exactly above mine. It was 4.00 A.M and our train was supposed to reach Ahmedabad at 6.00 A.M. This snoring lion had robbed us of our golden sleep and had cut it short by two hours. I was pretty annoyed by this and hence I decided to teach him a lesson by becoming his ringmaster. I muttered “you clumsy lion, you have robbed our sleep and hence your punishment will be that you too will have to loose it”
First thing I did was that I became a seasoned footballer like Lionel Messi and kicked his berth from below while he was roaring, oops snoring or whatever. Jolted by the sudden vigorous attack, the lion woke up from his trance and started looking here and there. I realised that he has woke up and hence I quickly closed my eyes and pretended to be asleep. It seemed that he stared here and there for a while and then when I opened my eyes after a while I found that he had again gone to sleep sans the snoring. Again after a while he started snoring again. This time I got hold of the mattress cloth on which he was sleeping and dragged it forcefully from below and then again pretended to be asleep. This time too the lion woke up in disbelief about his sleep being broken again. Then he got up fully, climbed down and proceeded towards the lavatory area for performing the morning rites. Lion in a Lavatory? Hehehe.
Satisfied immensely on my successful venture as a ringmaster, I too climbed down my berth and my wife who was watching this drama from below burst in to laughter. She said sometimes you will be caught doing all these on which I said “Madam don’t doubt my masterful tricky abilities ever. The lion returned after a while after finishing the pooping shooping and then settled down in front of us. His face wore a disgruntled look. He was a chubby lion who seemed to be in his mid forties. At last the destination station came and the lion stepped down the train and went away. I saw him from behind and being his temporary ringmaster, pointed a finger towards him and mumbled “Don’t ever meet me again or else you will meet the same fate as you met just now.”Roar somewhere else but not in front of this ringmaster, right? Hehehehehe, what say folks???
