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The Boy in Bus No.19: MTC Diaries 1

 If you're travelling in an MTC bus during the 8am to 10am slot, you might as well forget that seats exist in the bus. The newly made buses are in fact designed to provide for more place to stand. It was one such bus I was traveling on that day. I'd been standing for an hour, and finally got a seat: it wasn't exactly a seat, it's the box-like structure under which perhaps there were some mechanical parts, which MTC users started sitting on when the bus got too crowded. Hoping to rest my legs for at least the 10 minutes of the ride left, I sat on it, relieved. As destiny would have it, the relief didn't last long. This anna standing near me said, "He's been standing for very long, let him sit ma". And I looked around, expecting an old, grey haired man. It turned out I had to look down: it was a small boy, who wasn't even as tall as the box he was about to sit on. I let him sit, and was curious because he had no one with him.  He said he was going to...