Remains of Pains …

Everything is computerized … No more hassles … No more pains … But the reality is different though …

The worst nightmare I usually have is booking train tickets. I don’t remember a single instance where the queue was small in the booking office … And sometimes I go through agents who bring with them a new set of pains and each time I just vow that next time I would not use agents …

Well… So I was a happy person when online reservation was introduced … It was convenient in the beginning … But now it looks like it has brought a new set of pains with it …

I wanted to book two tickets today. It took almost fifteen minutes just to enter the station names … After half-an-hour hassle, I managed to reach the payment page … Now ICICI entices me with a new security feature that my credit cared could be linked to the internet banking password and I opt for it … That’s it … The connection got cut and it took another half-an-hour to go through the entire process again … Now the credit card page asks for the password , and I, a happy secure subscriber, type the password and alas… It says my password is wrong …

It took me another ten minutes to figure out that the password was correct and there is something else wrong … Now another half-an-hour and I book through my direct bank account … Then again another half-an-hour to book the next ticket … I vaguely remember that booking ticket directly didn’t take more than half-an-hour for me …

This is not the only case … Infact I have taken a presentation in my MBA class on my tussle with ebay (bazee.com) regarding one wrong shipment … So, it looks like everything has some pain associated with it …