Monday, April 6, 2015

Oh for those good old days

Crazy bumper to bumper traffic, impatient honking, scrambling for parking, pushing into the elevator, waiting impatiently in front of a store door, the clock strikes the hour, through the plexiglass a store assistant is seen lazily dawdling toward the door, boredom written all over her face, she fumbles for the key, and unlocks the door. The door bursts open and the eager, impatient crowd push through no different from the angry, irate boarding of an electric train in Mumbai. There’s a stampede. People are knocked over and hurt – situation reeking of callousness.
There’s a mad scramble to catch the clearance sale, with limited sizes and designs. You rush to your section, only to find the single piece in your size seized by this grouch of a person. Shoulders slumped, you leave. After all that trouble!!!



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