Shopping Blues.. Picture abhi baaki hai....
You went Shopping!!!!! You should have called me!!! Sounds familiar??
Yeah.. Gals.. They just love shopping and guess what... most of the times they don't "actually" want anything they just like to see a lot of stuff and get motivated to exchange half of the shop with a fourth half of the contents of their purse(which actually is the total amount of money present.. rest is cosmetic crap).
To provide some enlightenment to gals,their boyfriends generally dread going shopping with them (obviously after some 4-5 shopping dates after which his level of excitement of being with his girl comes down as she talks with the salesman more than she talks with him). Its amazing to watch the excitement on their face when they see "cute" things as they put it to hint you to buy them for her..
There is this friend of mine who went shopping for his birthday last week with his girl.. He ended up buying a new Bermuda while she brought two "cute" tops, a teddy, a handbag, a pair of ear rings and three shades of red nail polish. That's when i realised that they generally don't know what they want.. Salesmen tell them what they want.. My friend tried the Bermuda that he got.. it looked good as per my understanding and i would have used it right away but the "high command"(which is mostly the girl) ordered my friend to save it for future use and use the one that he is presently using. So he neatly folded it and put it in his overstuffed suitcase.
We again watched her passionately show and explain each product that she had brought... Boy!! i really started admiring that salesman who had made a lasting impression on this girl.. I wish i had those skills.. I would have sold myself to some gal ;-) Bye the way, i could find no difference in the three shades of red that she got. My friend now realised that his mobile was missing.. we started searching everywhere.. under the bed, inside the new clothes, in the bag, for once i even checked my pockets.. but it was to be found nowhere.. all this while, the gal was scolding my friend of being so forgetful and kept giving him instances. I asked her to check her purse.. she dumped the whole contents on my bed. Although she didnt find the mobile, she was happy to find her lost earring in the dump. We tried calling the mobile. It was ringing but no answer.
My friend tried to recall and said 'somebody might have stolen it when we were passing the crowded region in MGRoad'. 'They are organised gangs' one of my previous roomie who was on net all this while pointed out. 'He will switch it off in some time and throw the SIM'.. Another dormant gut started speaking. 'you have to report it in police station to get a replacement SIM'. Its amazing to see how fast people come to conclusions.. The girl concluded her guy was eternally forgetful, one concluded that it was stolen in MG Road, another conclusion was that the person who stole was a guy and last but not the least .. one person even concluded that my friend will never get back his phone!!! and this was not the end...
To worsen the situation, My 'forgetful' friend stupidly(although he has all my sympathy, lemme tell you.. he IS stupid) remembered that the cell was gifted to him by his girlfriend.. Now his girl(who was still admiring her nailpolish shades) stood up, and yelled 'How dare you lose my gift. You dont care for me. You are mean. You have no sentiments' and walked off.. I sat silent on the abrupt twists and turns that happened in a span of 30 minutes. My friend was in dilemma on what to do.. he went to console her but she wont listen. Dunno what happened after that.. He came back with a long face and said we fought and she dumped me. All were shocked.. though it was a 3 month old relation, he had taken it seriously.. He didnt give a police complaint.. He just took a new cell and a new number.. that must have been the Worst Birthday he ever had.. After two days i called his old cell and it was switched off.. I thought he was right.. That bugger must have switched off the cell and thrown the SIM...
But.. Picture abhi bhi baaki hai mere dost !!! I just got a call... The same friend called me and told that he got his mobile back!!!!! I was too happy.. I asked how.. He told me that while trying the bermuda, he had put the cell in its pocket, nicely folded it and kept it safely in the suitcase.. Because the suitcase was overstuffed, the ring was not audible. After two days, cell got switched off due to lack of charge... While searching for the phone, we had checked the suitcase but didnt check the pocket.. Never in dream did we imagine it could be there !!! Now since the phone is back, my friend is hoping his girlfriend will be back too.. I would request you people to pray for a happy ending for my friend..and will bore you again with the same dialogue of Om Shanti Om..
"Hamaari filmo ki tarah hamaari zindagi mein bhi end tak sab kuch theek hi ho jaata hai.. Happys... Endings.. aur agar thik naa ho.. to woh The End nahi... Picture abhi baaaaki hai mere dooooost!!!!!"
Yeah.. Gals.. They just love shopping and guess what... most of the times they don't "actually" want anything they just like to see a lot of stuff and get motivated to exchange half of the shop with a fourth half of the contents of their purse(which actually is the total amount of money present.. rest is cosmetic crap).
To provide some enlightenment to gals,their boyfriends generally dread going shopping with them (obviously after some 4-5 shopping dates after which his level of excitement of being with his girl comes down as she talks with the salesman more than she talks with him). Its amazing to watch the excitement on their face when they see "cute" things as they put it to hint you to buy them for her..
There is this friend of mine who went shopping for his birthday last week with his girl.. He ended up buying a new Bermuda while she brought two "cute" tops, a teddy, a handbag, a pair of ear rings and three shades of red nail polish. That's when i realised that they generally don't know what they want.. Salesmen tell them what they want.. My friend tried the Bermuda that he got.. it looked good as per my understanding and i would have used it right away but the "high command"(which is mostly the girl) ordered my friend to save it for future use and use the one that he is presently using. So he neatly folded it and put it in his overstuffed suitcase.
We again watched her passionately show and explain each product that she had brought... Boy!! i really started admiring that salesman who had made a lasting impression on this girl.. I wish i had those skills.. I would have sold myself to some gal ;-) Bye the way, i could find no difference in the three shades of red that she got. My friend now realised that his mobile was missing.. we started searching everywhere.. under the bed, inside the new clothes, in the bag, for once i even checked my pockets.. but it was to be found nowhere.. all this while, the gal was scolding my friend of being so forgetful and kept giving him instances. I asked her to check her purse.. she dumped the whole contents on my bed. Although she didnt find the mobile, she was happy to find her lost earring in the dump. We tried calling the mobile. It was ringing but no answer.
My friend tried to recall and said 'somebody might have stolen it when we were passing the crowded region in MGRoad'. 'They are organised gangs' one of my previous roomie who was on net all this while pointed out. 'He will switch it off in some time and throw the SIM'.. Another dormant gut started speaking. 'you have to report it in police station to get a replacement SIM'. Its amazing to see how fast people come to conclusions.. The girl concluded her guy was eternally forgetful, one concluded that it was stolen in MG Road, another conclusion was that the person who stole was a guy and last but not the least .. one person even concluded that my friend will never get back his phone!!! and this was not the end...
To worsen the situation, My 'forgetful' friend stupidly(although he has all my sympathy, lemme tell you.. he IS stupid) remembered that the cell was gifted to him by his girlfriend.. Now his girl(who was still admiring her nailpolish shades) stood up, and yelled 'How dare you lose my gift. You dont care for me. You are mean. You have no sentiments' and walked off.. I sat silent on the abrupt twists and turns that happened in a span of 30 minutes. My friend was in dilemma on what to do.. he went to console her but she wont listen. Dunno what happened after that.. He came back with a long face and said we fought and she dumped me. All were shocked.. though it was a 3 month old relation, he had taken it seriously.. He didnt give a police complaint.. He just took a new cell and a new number.. that must have been the Worst Birthday he ever had.. After two days i called his old cell and it was switched off.. I thought he was right.. That bugger must have switched off the cell and thrown the SIM...
But.. Picture abhi bhi baaki hai mere dost !!! I just got a call... The same friend called me and told that he got his mobile back!!!!! I was too happy.. I asked how.. He told me that while trying the bermuda, he had put the cell in its pocket, nicely folded it and kept it safely in the suitcase.. Because the suitcase was overstuffed, the ring was not audible. After two days, cell got switched off due to lack of charge... While searching for the phone, we had checked the suitcase but didnt check the pocket.. Never in dream did we imagine it could be there !!! Now since the phone is back, my friend is hoping his girlfriend will be back too.. I would request you people to pray for a happy ending for my friend..and will bore you again with the same dialogue of Om Shanti Om..
"Hamaari filmo ki tarah hamaari zindagi mein bhi end tak sab kuch theek hi ho jaata hai.. Happys... Endings.. aur agar thik naa ho.. to woh The End nahi... Picture abhi baaaaki hai mere dooooost!!!!!"
posted by Manohar at
9:27 PM
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