Recent Sundy Nights...🤔

It's been a couple of months since our Sunday night turned out to be like this. I started going for a class which is in Negombo. Usually, it takes 15-20 minutes to reach Negombo, if using the main road, from my place, but while using public transportation, it depends due to the traffic issues and lack of buses and that time extends.

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What matters is that the class starts at 6pm and ends at 9pm. such an awful time for a class and if using public transport its getting more awful. So that journey was a special plus weird experience and still it is. That specialty lead me to share it with you here.

As the class ends at 9pm, amma comes with me everyday and stay there till the class ends. We go there by bus, and class is there aside of the chilaw-colombo main road, and a little bit far from the middle of negombo. Ever since i joined the class it wasnt easy to go to the class as well as to come back home. Due to the fuel crisis the number of buses on the road were decreased and even the available buses were soooooo crowded.

But the worst thing is coming back home cus it gets late as 9 pm. There is a bus halt at completely the other side of the road and from there we can catch only the buses those have started from colombo. I mean there's no any other option at a time like that. From the colombo buses, short distance buses those we can catch from there are to Chillaw, Puttalam or Kuliyapitiya. If not there are buses to Jaffna, Mannar, Trinco, Vavniya, Kilinochchi or Anuradhapura and they are like flying.

At a time like 9 pm, u cant find a single bus to Chillaw, there are only long distance buses available on the road. If not we have to wait till 10pm , cus theres the last colombo kuliyapitiya bus on that time. but we try to catch any bus passes by as we want to come home ASAP.

There are about 6-7 friends to go with. There is a friend who comes from so far. I'm the first one to get off and she is the one who has to spend around more than an hour on the bus. so there is her mother n also my mother and that's all. Since there's that aunty, who gets off at last, she looks after the others till their halts arrives. Also there are a few boys from our class, if not there are only the females.

Untill now, we have come by Jaffna, Vavuniya and Mannar buses. Almost all the time we get on to the bus which comes at first place. But, it's hard to get on to a long distance bus cus we have a little bit distance to go by, considerably to their route.

So when a bus arrives, that aunty, who travels so far, says their destination cus they travel a considerable distance. Funny thing is we act like we also go till there and get on to the bus.

When go by a long distance bus it gets less than 10 minutes to reach Kochchikade. From the passengers almost everyone is Tamil. There is a major popularity of tamil people in Kochchikade as well. So amma says that's also can be a reason for say nothing even when giving the tickets.

The most horrible thing is almost all the male passengers on the bus are drunken people. So their consciousness is like zero. Even the conductor is drunken and it's really dangerous for a girl to travel alone by that kinda buses. When I go by those buses, feel so bad about the condition of the public transportation of our country. As there are a few of us, we continue to do our silly jokes based on passengers or something else to make it comfortable around us.

Btw,after a few weeks, our transportation mode changed.. I will share it soon cus that's an interesting story for me.