Sometimes even the smallest acts of kindness can go a long way in making someone elseâs day, or as a traveller found out during a recent train journey â an entire familyâs.
A man named Vishnu Vardhan, in a Facebook post, said he didnât think twice about the Train Ticket Examiner (TTE) while taking the train to Pallakad only deeming him to be âstern yet polite.â That was until he saw the TTE in a whole new light after witnessing him interacting with a family of five who were on a pilgrimage.
Vinshu writes that while the TTE had been examining the familyâs tickets for their present journey, they told him that they would be taking the 1 am train from Coimbatore for the next leg of their journey. The TTE then asked to check those tickets as well to see if everything was in order. Thatâs when he realised that they had booked tickets for the wrong day.
In a kind tone, he then explained to the family that the train they had hoped to catch had already left earlier that day and they needed new tickets to travel. The family, now dispirited, didnât know how to proceed. The TTE once again stepped in and showed them how they could book tickets online and used his own phone to book tickets for them to ensure they werenât stranded in the middle of the night at the train station.
Vishu, in his now-viral Facebook posts then explains how this small interaction helped restore his faith in humanity and also in public systems. He says, âWhen we think of our nation and its development, small things like a change of attitude to âhelp fellow countrymenâ are the ones that reinstate our belief in governments and public systemsâŠ.and makes one feel proud as an IndianâŠ.(sic).â
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Vishnuâs post proves that dedicated public servants are truly the backbone of this nation.
Yesterday as I was travelling in train to Palakkad,this TTE was doing routine stuff, was stern yet politeâŠ.Never feltâŠ
Posted by Vishnu Vardhan on Friday, February 3, 2017