Blessing or blasphemy

By Huda Ayaz

To me it is like a miracle to get a seat in KU’s point. Although we all are well aware of the plausible fact that it is hazardous to travel in points, but I must concede that a person should once experience the fun and boisterousness of these overloaded vehicles.

It does not matter how early you reach to depot just for the sack of ‘a seat’, which by the way, one never gets.

Few days back, I bunked my last class because I was fainting and my legs were barely moving. I dashed straight ahead to depot, with hopes that I might get a seat so that I could rest on my way back home, but I was wrong. Even an hour and half before the point’s departure, I was failed to get a seat. 

Many of my friends said its better to use the bus services instead of points. But by the increment of inflation, it is more convenient to cover the far-flung distance in 3 rupees, than giving more many and changing two to three buses each time. Plus the fun of points is something one can not find in buses.

In summers, it is hard to cross your way with so much suffocation around. Everyone bustles to get a place near window to get some air and lessen their sweating. One might puke with the smell of stale engine and everyone’s sweat. But once a point starts, the unendurable atmosphere begins to cool.

Girls are always greater in strength than boys. They make fuss to get seats, while boys quarrel to get a place at the door steps of point. Hanging there all the way back, and performing all the bizarre and idiotic things they possible can. Many girls in the front seats start to sing or even fall asleep due to the long and tiring day.

With all of the facts above, one can not choose it, as a blessing or a blasphemy. Management should amend these points and recuperate old ones. But I must reckon up that it is safest and cheapest way to travel our ways back homes, especially in such a catastrophic condition that our city is facing.