Idle musings

VISIT TO KODAI     Last weekend, my wife and I visited Kodaikanal from Saturday to Monday.     We left on Friday night, taking the 9:15 p.m. KSRTC Rajhamsa Executive. While the bus wasn't air conditioned, the push-back button worked fine and considering that we were headed for the hills, we were comfortable. One week after Friday the 13th, I suppose I should have expected some trouble ;-)     It began innocuously enough : before the bus started, the couple across the aisle noticed that their suitcase was missing. They had stepped out of the bus to answer the call of nature and in that brief interval, a man had made off with their suitcase. My natural caution made me insist to my wife to take her hand bag along when we also went out. I also kept the entrance of the bus in my sights at all time, though this was merely because the toilet was uncomfortably close to the bus (it stank a little!). It could just as easily have been our bag that was missing ! It was in the bus while we wer