I went to my native place last week. I always take the ECR road. After reaching Cuddalore, I took a private bus to Neyveli and got a seat beside the front exit. The trip was uneventful till it reached a place called Kurinjipadi.
In Kurinjipadi, a man got into the bus through the front exit. A woman was holding his elbow and entered the bus behind him. I found everything normal untill the experienced conductor told the woman that he can't take a drunkard in the bus.
He told the woman, "You both get down. I can't take him in he bus"
"Please brother, I am with him. I can handle him", She pleaded
The conductor agreed to take them and asked her "Where do you want to go?". The question was replied rudely by her drunk husband, "Where is the bus going?"
The conductor was visible irritated. However, the woman pleaded again to the conductor and tried to calm her husband. He was so drunk that he started to shout at her. The conductor gave her two tickets to Neyveli and moved away. The travel time of the couple was only 10 minutes. Within that time that man fought with few other passengers and the woman tried to calm everyone and finally, they got down in their village, two stops before neyveli.
The moment, they got down, the woman left his hand and walked away. He fell on the floor and could not get up. So drunk, he was destined to sleep on the road, the whole night. He started shouting towards her for help. He used the most insulting word that one can use against a woman to call her. She turned towards him, gave a broad smile, walked to him and started to lift him, as our bus moved away.
Someone in the bus said, "He is one lucky man in the world to get such a wife."
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