On Friendship

Overheard in the local train today morning:

When someone asks me to wait with him, I pause and think: Is he asking me to wait with him because he is waiting for someone? Or is he asking me to wait with him because he likes my company? If it is the second, that person is my true friend.

Another overheard conversation here. Other experiences in Mumbai locals here and here. Posts on commuting here and here and a book review of Jaideep Varma's Local which is about a protagonist who makes the Mumbai trains his home.