I have been travelling in the Mumbai Local trains for some days now. Every day there is something that happens when I think that “OK” I shall go home today and write this one in the blog. But have not been urged to that extent to have memory of that till I get back home. Finally today…. A School teacher has initiated me.
Same train, same time to the same place.
I notice one of the school girls is staring at something behind in the seats for quite sometime now. Not bothered to peep myself as I find it embarrassing. It’s a rare trait to find in the Ladies Compartment travelers probably coz am new. Still getting used to the environment. It’s a whole other world with whole other set of rules, more on that later.
Finally! I got a seat! Oh! This is what the girl and everyone around is staring at. A school teacher is correcting answer sheets. And she is doing it at supersonic speed. Page turns √ √ √ and ∞ ∞. Next Page, big slash in the large vacant area. Now Marks, 2-2-1-0-0. Tuck tuck tuck. The red ink flows. How could she be so fast? I guess teachers are so used to doing it that they know by shape of the sentence whether it contains correct words or not. Experience makes man perfect!
(Wondering what that ∞ symbol is? It is supposed to be the shape indicating wrong, she was putting every now and then.)
Thoughts start wandering: How would my teachers have corrected my papers. I do remember writing one paper, where she wouldn’t have had to do much hardwork, look at many shapes. Two lines and big slashes in the rest :D
Next Station, another enthusiastic girl boards in. She is literally drooping over the teacher to see the action going on. Couple of minutes behind I see her biting her nails.
The final station is approaching, the slowing train has somehow triggered teacher’s speed to super supersonic. The fate of the student is now being witnessed undistractedly by all the commuter of 5:33 Thane from Kanjur.
Everybody stars, including me this time.
NB: Sadly couldnt find a single image of answer sheet on Google
