A Bus Stand
A bus stand is a place at some point of a highway, a road or a street where buses halt. Passengers get on and off a bus at this place. Some bus stands have ticket counters for buses of a particular company. Buses of other companies have no ticket counters there. For such buses passengers have to wait at the bus stand and when a bus comes they struggle, push and jostle to get on. They want to have seats.
The number of passengers is most at rush hours. Passengers stand in a queue after buying tickets for those buses which have ticket counters. When the expected bus comes they start getting on one by one. When the seats are occupied, some passengers remain standing in queue for the next bus. But some of the passengers may agree to remain standing in the same bus and so they get in. The scenary is different for those buses which have no ticket counters. They do not line up, but wait in a disorderly manner. When such a bus comes, they jostle and push and struggle hard to get in first so that they can have a seat. At some hours when the passengers are few, the bus conductor of a non-counter bus shouts repeatedly mentioning the destinations of the bus. He tries to attract attention of the possible passengers.
Some big bus stands have tea stalls, bakery, fruiters, small book stalls and news agents. The cries of hawkers, the hooting of horns, the roars of engine and the foul smell of petrol or diesel exhaust make a bus stand a horrible place.
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