Why do we even Divide by One?!

Now I know why an Engineering Bachelor's Degree lasts four years...
So that you can learn the bus route to and from your college!
This realization dawned upon me this very Thursday.

It may sound like a lame joke, but believe me it doesn't seem as stupid and funny when you're at the receiving end!

Throughout my first year I was oblivious of the fact that there were two buses with their route numbers different only by a '/1'. Bus No. 215A is actually the one which is supposed to take me to my destination. And then there is Bus No. 215A/1... which doesn't exactly take me 'very close' to my destination. :P

Anyway after another tiresome day... I got up on the the first bus I found on my route. At a glance the number seemed to be somewhat like a 215... that was good enough...
I cosily settled into a empty seat for another lazy trip back to 'Ultadanga'...
The first time something struck me as odd was when the bus turned left instead of right at a junction... and most importantly no one complained! Now let me tell you, this isn't really a very Kolkata-bus-public-like response... one or two heated words are the least you can expect, but yet I didn't bother too much because in Salt Lake buses are often forced to take detours because of frequent road construction works.
After another half an hour, instead of 'Karunamoyee' we reached 'Beleghata' going over the EM Bypass road. I was sure the bus would take a turn towards 'Ultadanga' at the CIT Road junction... but instead it raced straight ahead towards 'Sealdah'!!!
I shot off my seat at once and tried to maneuver my way through the bustling crowd of passengers (anyone who has been in a bus during office return hours knows what I'm talking about) to the entrance... managing to reach there only when two more stops had passed away! So I somehow managed to jump off at 'Rashmoni Bazar'.

The only silver lining was that I had a bus which takes me directly to my home from there... so finally I did reach home, with a time lag of around an hour...

Some wise guy once quoted... "At every corner life teaches you a lesson"
Wish I had learnt mine at the very first turn! :P