Showing posts with label Stonehenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stonehenge. Show all posts

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Stoned stupor

Today my mind wanders to one of the very few racial experiences that I have faced. I, along with my sister were travelling to Stonehenge in UK. We took a train from London's Waterloo station for Salisbury.

So, we were on the train, when we felt that the ticket checker wasn't all that friendly to us given our "brown" skin. He gave us quite a few looks that made us uncomfortable...nevertheless, we ignored him until we had doubts about our stop.

It so happened that our train was delayed and made an unscheduled stop at one of the station en route. Confused, we inquired with the TC if that was the right place to get off for Stonehenge, to which he gave an affirmative response with a nice "YES".

As we disembarked, it was only after the train departed that we realized that the guy had shown his true nature...one of dislike for people who are not "blessed" with white skin. He had made us get off at a station where there was no transportation available... no buses...no cabs. And the next train was 45 minutes later.

The two of us were deserted on a deserted station for more than an hour to hop on the next train and reach our destination. It was only then we realised that no matter how advance we get, there are always few who pull you back.

Even though we lost more than two hours on the day trip we made (the next train was a local one) ....as we caught the first glimpse of the beautiful rocks of Stonehenge... we forgot how bad some people can treat you....no matter how shitty life may get..there is always a silver lining....!