'Couple'd Reactions

I am not completely against couples expressing their affection in public . But, they need to draw a line somewhere...An overnight train journey with 2 pairs provided first hand experience on 'couple behaviour induced discomfiture'.

The older of the two pairs had a cute and confused 2/3yr old daughter who kept insisting that there were mosquitoes inside her mouth..! The younger pair showed signs of having tied the knot recently. They would have made an excellent subject for a fevicol advertisement. From the moment they boarded, till long afterwards, they were glued together...This got to a point when it was quite embarassing for the rest of us...'Why do you have to even look at them?!'you might ask..I couldnt help it...Basically, there was nothing else to do..and they sat right in front of me and I couldnt look anywhere else!!! When I tried not looking at them, I ended up hurting my neck !

The older ones, didnt want to be left behind either...They were sitting beside the window and facing each other...Every now and then, the two leant over and talked something in hushed tones and threw their heads back in wild laughter...All the while their kid was making polite conversations with me (LOL!)

Hoping the ordeal would end as soon as the tickets were checked...I waited...The TTI arrived and the older husband deftly handed him their ticket...There was something wrong with the numbers under the 'Age' column that drew my attention, almost intuitively. The lady's age was printed as 22...and the man's 35...Isnt there a limit to these excesses!?!! She looked atleast 27, if not more!..Any Day..!!!! I struggled to hide a chuckle..! I tried making some crazy and quick calculation on approximating her age..(not that it really mattered to me...but, as I said, there was nothing else to do!!!)and decided that she could definitely not be 22..After all, it was HER age...!

I was happy it was all over, when everyone went to sleep...Early morning proved me wrong...At about half past three, the older wife, rudely kicked me while alighting from the middle berth...I decided against letting out a high-pitched, all-awakening, scream, mainly out of consideration for other passengers...She landed on the other lower berth, where poor Mr.32 was snoring...She shook him awake...Their muffled voices interspersed with her soft laughter did more than disturb my sleep...It made me feel like an incurable insomniac!

It was 6:00 in the morning, I jumped out of the train and looked around for my dad who had promised to pick me up...Dad usually came to pick me up whenever I landed early in the morning....knowing fully well, that I mightn't even get up at that odd hour..On a couple of earlier occasions, I had been sleeping in the berth, even after the train came to a halt, when he'd come around, woken me up and dragged me home..! He was surprised to see me totally awake...'No sleep?!' he asked..'Not much of it.. There were a couple of disturbing instances...' Despite the irritation, I was amused at my attempt at intended puns!