Before leaving the train at Nagpur I turned back to have a look at coach. I was having heavenly feeling as I was getting off and will be free to inhale some good air finally. The condition of coach needs to be explained???
I decided to have a sutta before getting into auto to reach home. I asked for cigarette and started forming the smoke clouds. The mask was still attached to me. The owner of the shop asked
“Is this N95 mask? ”. I said no.
Then he again asked “Is this 6 layers? “ or something like that. NO, I replied.
Then we started the casual discussion regarding the H1N1. Then all of a sudden he shouted at me "Hey, you came from train right now? From where you are coming?”
I got shocked by the sudden change in his behavior. I said “From Pune”
All lines on his forhead became visible. He shouted at me “Just stay away. You should have told me this earlier”. He took a handkerchief and rolled around his face.
Meanwhile he became normal and started speaking to me. But didn’t fail to inform whoever came there that I came from Pune and just stay away from me.
Finally while leaving I just decided to again burn his ass and asked for water. He gave. I am sure he would have disposed that bottle immediately even without touching it.
On the way to home, I was thinking how my parents, friends and relatives are going to react with me?
