HEY PPL!!!!       Himanshu's blog Well done Mr. Lalu Prasad. Hats off. dated 7th Sepember 2006 reminded me of a real story which i had read sometime ago in the papers the story goes something like this--------

there used to be a train from Solapur to .......... (am not quite sure abt the details of the train ) that was  never on time and was always  late by 6-7 hours. many a times people carried chairs (there were no chairs as such on the station) ,bedsheets, etc. along with them to the station  so as to rest till the train arrived. 
Obviously all this amounted to lot of discomfort and anguish among the people and  they were pretty annoyed with the local authorities and hence decided to complain to the Railway Minister about it.. The railway minister was pretty shocked to hear this and decided thats it and he would definetly do somethin about it.
So one fine morning the RM alongwith some of his chaps decided to visit the station and got himself seated on a chair and he  decided that no matter how long the train takes to arrive he would wait .The train was scheduled to arrive at 10:30 am and to  the minister's amazement the train had arrived at sharp 10:30am . He was thrilled and said that he wished that the railway authorities would behave this punctual even otherwise and not just because he was xpected to come for inspection .At this time one of his chaps was pulling the minister's kurta and was trying to draw his attention to somethin while he continued to brag about wat difference his presence had made in the town .. now after a while the RM got pretty annoyed and said wot was it and why was  he (his man ) not leting him speak..? At this... the man inormed him that the train that had arrived now was scheduled to arrive yesterday and was late by 24 hours......... and till date this train had never been this late ...!!!!!