It's common to travel by a auto in our day to day life in India, sometimes there are lessons you get taught, might not be the biggest one's but sufficient enough to make you realise the cheap mentality of people's you're been living with in the society.
Today, the city didn't appeared to be normal, seemed like it's on a halt. I heard someone say, a legislative minister is expected to visit soon so it was appearing to be a tough job to get back home due to the security patrolling, very few transportation means were accessible but I somehow managed to get one for myself.
With seat capacity of normally 8 passengers; I was only the male other than the driver travelling with 7 other ladies; it's actually common though, I was busy typing something in my cellphone.
After sometime, I saw a girl running behind the auto with sets of bags, trying to stop the auto. I was able to sense the stress over her cute innocent face, it wasn't feasible though but I asked the driver to stop the auto so she could get inside.
The driver stopped the auto; said, there's no seat to the girl so she should sit right next to the driver. I sensed her unwillingness but she hopped on just then I got out of the auto and told the girl to take my seat.
She appeared puzzled and started looking towards the driver and other passengers, the driver with a different look (dirty/pervert) quickly started the vehicle and told me to take my seat and started moving the auto.
"She will be comfortable with the other girls there; I said to the driver."
The girl didn't got out, so I had no other option than to take my seat. Girls started bullying me and making fun of me. I didn't cared to hear what they wanted to say, the only thing I could think of was the girl was feeling uncomfortable sitting right next to the driver. Still I had 5 kms to travel but I decided to give up before i could reach my stoppage and leave the auto so that the girl could take my seat. I was about to stop the auto just then one lady who had been travelling with us asked the driver to stop the auto as it was her stoppage.
The girl instantly got out and came backside to take the seat. I sensed a relief on her face.
I realised that it was difficult for her to get inside due to her short height and lots of bags she was carrying. As I was seated near the exit door, I got out and offered my hand and helped the girl to get inside and manage herself comfortably.
Suddenly, there was a complete silence in the auto, the girls who were making fun of me earlier, suddenly had not a single word to utter.
"She wasn't my sister nor a friend but I did what was right at the time."
I too got inside the auto and continued my work that I had been doing lately. After a while of travel, it was my stoppage, so I got out and paid the driver and said "Sorry bhaiyya" and smiled and started walking away. Only one smile I saw before I left, it was the same girl.
Every body looked at me with a puzzled face but only three of us knew what was the sorry for...