Tuesday, October 25, 2005

The 'OUCH SCREEN'

Enhanced information booths at Coimbatore railway station:




The way it works is:

1) u use it to find out some current info like the coach position
2) it tells u it's gonna be at the other extreme end of the platform from where you are currently standing
3) u lug urself all the way there in all of 30 minutes
4) the train arrives and u find that your coach is placed right where u were when u started - at the other end from where you are now
5) u now have only 5 minutes before the train leaves
6) you go "OUCH" (actually, you go m@#$%f@#$% s#@$ a#$%^ ...)

(Disclaimer: The above experience has been modified for dramatic effect. The 'ouch' thingy worked pretty fine alright. Yet, there's a chance of cutting yourself on the edges of frame holding the screen and going, "OUCH"!)

1 comment:

... said...

ooooo.... camera phone.... Mapu, check this out!!!