(33) BE NOT AFRAID OF GOOD DEEDS

We had booked our tickets under tatkal scheme. 2 days back,to come back to Hyderabad, we boarded the train from valsad,though the ticket was booked from rajkot to secunderabad being issued under tatkal.There was less space left to keep our luggage by already seated passengers. But somehow we managed to stuff our three bags in place of one. Journery started and from the third station, boarded a middle aged south Indian man with 6 numbers of luggage. Our seat numbers were 51 and 53 while his seat number was 49.No space was left out for him to set his things.He requested us to move our luggage.I told him about our already performed compromise.He then started staring the half asleep other passengers for help,who were least bothered to respond to his plea.He was feeling very helpless as half of his things were still lying at the door of the compartment.i thought of helping him and I stood up to wake those people up and asked them about the number of seats they had and number of luggage the kept under the seat.i realized two people from side seating had stuffed two big heavily loaded bags in our space besides over occupying their underseats and other available.This man(seat 49) did not understand gujarati and those people whom I requested were comfortable with only gujarati.They became bit adamant and took a kind of tiff with me over the matter of shifting out their stuff.I fought equally with them beyond my husband’s dislike about my quarrelling for a stranger.While I fought and succeded,this man simply kept quiet and thanked me when all his luggage were kept in place.
After sometime, we realized that both our confirmed seats were given to the RAC people as we had not boarded from Rajkot and hence assuming us to be not traveling ,the TTE did so.Before we could sort some explanation from him , he came shouting on us and asked us to leave the seats as he had already got some good gyaan against us by the RAC man who was supposed to get our seat and who was amongst those supporting those two adamant luggage fighters. Perhaps, there was some technical error in ticket issuing due to which we landed in that soup.I requested the other TTE to do something, or issue us new tickets or atleast give us one seat so that we could make Charvi sleep on that, but my pleading went in vain.Atlast, we decided to get down at kalian and take another train, which according to the enquiry we got done on phone by our friend, had 80 seats availability. While we were freezing on this decision,this man(seat 49) gave us a help proposal.He said, if we had no problem, he could exchange his seat with some side berth seater and all three of us could sit there and spent the night.Though we hesistated initially, later accepted the proposal as only that choice could land us Hyderabad in time and hence we could be there to receive my in laws who were already on there way to us.
Later, when TTE changed from Vaashi, I again enquired with the new one, who told me that one of our seats was still available.We exchanged it with the side berth seater and thanked that man(seat 49) for his help.We also managed to get one more seat in sometime and came back home without further problems.
Dheeraj told me that he was badly annoyed when I was quarreling for some stranger, but later when the same stranger offered to sacrifice his sleep and comfort for us, he realized that good deeds are paid back..