Penning this down because it’s a first and also so that it adds to the body of texts my grandchildren can read when they’re hit by bouts of extreme boredom.

Left my house on time (roughly an hour before my train departed)
Planned to take an auto.
First auto waala i found said he wont go all the way; instead he gave me a brilliant plan: Take the local train, it’ll be faster and cost just 5 rupees. He said he would drop me to the nearest station and that trains to my destination come every 5 mins so i there should be no problem getting there on time.

When i reached the stattion i had just missed a train, i then waited for 25 mins, no train came.

As a last gasp effort i tried coming covering the distance via auto and rather predictably failed to catch the train.