They are stinky, always full of people, unhygienic and take so long to get from one place to another that we prefer taking a flight or enjoy the comforts of a car. Trains in India are not worth spending your money or worth wasting your time on.
Here are a 23 absolute reasons that are sure to make you hate trains even more:
1. Train journeys are so long. What can you possibly do?
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2. There is no recreation whatsoever.
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3. There is never a good view out of the window.
4. Like seriously! There is absolutely nothing good to see on the way.
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5. All the routes are so pathetic.
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6. Literally, no good sights anywhere.
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7. The train stations are just ugly.
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8. Not a single one looks good!
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9. All the trains are so dirty…
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10. Even the stations are not clean!
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11. Kids just get bored and annoy everybody.
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12. The trains are uncomfortable.
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13. There is no kind of service.
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14. There is nothing good to eat!
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15. Sometimes you may have to bring your own food, but who likes home-cooked meals, right?
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16. You don’t meet any interesting people.
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17. They are all rude and not helpful at all.
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18. Every train is the same, no unconventional ideas anywhere.
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19. They could have at least tried something different.
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20. Unlike the trains abroad, there are no luxurious ones here.
21. Why would they do something like this?
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22. After all, a train is just a few boxes put together on wheels, right? Why would you want to sit in one?
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23. And not take a flight or go by road?
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In case you did not get it, this is a sarcastic post. As kids, most of us have taken a lot of these journeys. So trains reek of nostalgia; they are cramped with memories of a journey and surrounded by dangerously beautiful views.
After all, it is not about the destination, it is how you get there.
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