The tale of a moustache
A commuter shares a lighthearted anecdote about spotting a man on a Bengaluru metro train wearing a moustache drawn on with kajal. The encounter leads to a moment of shared, albeit awkward, amusement that highlights the small, human moments of city life.
Why it matters
It captures the mundane yet humorous social interactions that define urban public transit experiences.
R ecently, while returning home on the metro, something funny happened.
Though it was a Sunday, the train was packed. I did not get a seat. At the Majestic station in the heart of Bengaluru, many people got off and I finally got a seat. As I sat down and looked ahead, I saw a broad face adorned with a rather odd but impressive black moustache. The moustache was dark and well-shaped; but the face behind it was wrinkled with age.
“What the heck!” I wondered if he had dyed his moustache, but no, it wasn’t dyed. There was no real moustache at all. He had simply drawn one using kajal and came out into the crowd like that.
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