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During our time in India, we have received a number of odd emails that leave us saying: "huh?!" to ourselves, chuckling quietly, and shrugging our shoulders with utter confusion about what we're supposed to do next. This week we were working on ordering train tickets for our upcoming trip and so had emailed to specify which train tickets we would like to purchase. We noted particularly that we would like to purchase a ticket for Will as he is nearly 3 years old and does not sit well on our laps for a 6-hour trip. Neither of us quite knew what to do with the response we received (quoted below).
"You do not need to purchase a ticket for children Age 2. Also the ralway won't give him a seat but if you want him to have a seat then you have to show that he is 5 years old. Please let us know what needs to be done."
HMMMM...
Nate suggested the following:
"Dear --,
Please forge a document stating that our son is 5 years old and purchase a ticket for him."
However, in the end, I dejectedly wrote back to request tickets for only Nate and me. I'm still not really sure what our options were! Nate thinks that for about a dollar we could get Will a fake ID and pass him off as a 5-year old.
2 comments:
It seems that there's an age black hole aboard the trains where children age 3-4 simply don't exist.
joie - there's really only one good response for emails like this: DO THE NEEDFUL.
(i know this post was a long time ago, but i'm just getting caught up with your posts and found this one to be particularly humorous as i've pondered many emails like this one, shaking my head in confusion, during my time at WS). :)
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