Friday, February 8, 2013

Alarms and locations

I was travelling from Latur to Pune by a train that left Latur 2230 hrs to reach Pune 0430 hrs. Now, thats an awful hour to wake up and alight. I was very sure i was going to miss Pune and thats what happened.

Despite having a sleepless journey, I managed to sleep very well around 330 and was woken by an alarm at 0430 to realise I have crossed Pune and is 15 kms away. I switched 3G on and started searching where I was to find the arrow showing Dehu Road on my phone. Promptly, in five minutes, TC comes with a passenger who is slated to go to Mumbai to be seated where I slept. When I narrated my story, TC retorted, you should have told me at the time of boarding, I would have woken you up.

Actually, I was not hassled with this at all, the next station was Lonavala, I was thinking if I should get down there or travel to Kalyan to take a train back. The TC was not bothered that I was travelling without a ticket, must be the story effect.

I was thinking what is it that i could have done, I was told I will be in Pune at 430 and I had set the alarm accordingly, then It struck me, if someone can design an alarm linked to the location than just the time.

Imagine you setting alarms for
1. the place you met your first sweetheart first time
2.the nursing home you were born
3. the place where you had the first accident

etc... etc...

1 comment:

suveerb said...

Hilarious!!! Made me laugh out loud.
Funnily enough, iPhone has it:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1146889