Happy April Fool's Day in advance
How often does it happen that you get inside a bus and then something happens there and you wish you hadn’t boarded the bus in the first place? I for one have found myself in the midst of many such uncomfortable situations. On one such occasion, a few years back, I had boarded a bus along with some college folks. There were some pretty girls in the group and as usual I was checking them out. However, what stuck me was that one of them had put up a sad face. She was surrounded by her friends who were consoling her. The decibel levels of their conversation gradually increased until it became irritating. There hardly arose any need for eavesdropping to get the wind of what they were up to. As it turned out the girl’s family had been handed a list of things by her would be in-laws that would constitute her dowry and her family was at their wits end to find an amicable end to the impasse. Upon hearing this, her friends who until now had been patient listeners suddenly became enra
