Surprising Pune!

Surprising Pune!

I surprised last week when I was the Pune bus stand! After coming to Pune, in the last 2 years, travelling in the government bus was hardly 2 times.... But it was not from bus terminus to some other bus stop. It was from 1 bus stop to another bus stop!
Before telling about the surprising of Pune, I would rather tell about comfort-ability of Pune

I felt and feel comfortable in Pune:

1st thing that made me feel comfortable is the 'Autowala' - Auto driver, who had taken me from Airport to Chinchwad, during my interview at Pune, rather first trip to Pune.

Though, all Autowala takes money, that guy asked me whether I had taken breakfast in the morning. I could see truth in him, when he asked me. I said I would take after some time. He was about to get some bananas for me for the breakfast. I chose to say thanks only and not to take bananas from him.

When travelling, the auto guy didn't know the 'Autocluster' when the interview was held. Obviously he asked another guy who was passing by. Instead of telling the route in few minutes, the other guy spent  almost several minutes in explaining the route in detail. Had the Autowala told, how had not understood, he would have almost come with us to show the place. I felt comfortable that people around me are helpful. 

It is really important for anybody to feel safe and comfortable when they come to new place.

Coming back to the surprise #1:

I went to city last week and was in the bus terminus. I saw people sitting in rows. The bus stand was not so good. It was with ordinary steel rusted bench, but clean. The ticket counter had mesh wire structure as always seen everywhere in government bus stand. The paint had gone in most of the places and looked bare. I saw the bus coming and stopped at the mouth of the queue. People without quarrel got into the bus like a school children going for NCC parade. I have not seen this in any other bus stand (I mention in Tamil Nadu). It was almost more than a decade, I have gone by government bus. I was taken into surprise that people of Pune follow queue system in bus stand. Though this would be normal to many people, at least to me, it is a surprise.

Surprise #2:

Though all big shops and mall follow this, its a surprise to me that road side shops follow this.  Ya, dustbin in the shops. I did not mean that big shops are great and small shops are bad!!!I have seen in big malls and shops that they have dustbin mentioning 'USE ME'. I have seen in railway station, bus stand etc etc. But I have not seen in small tea shops in Chennai. There are so many things in Chennai for which awareness to be brought to the people. There is a responsibility lies in me as well. When I saw the dustbin system in most of the tea shops in Pune, I got surprised.

It is a general tendency to compare with Chennai, where I was brought up and lived for more than 20 years. Its always good to take the best points of other places and try to incorporate in our places and best points of our places to other places.

My point is to grab the good learning's from wherever, whomever, whatever possible and try to implement as far as possible.