The word shopping brings a smile on any girls face..but to me, its a four to five hour boring ordeal at the end of which the only thing you 'gain' is an 'empty batua'..!!! But then sometimes, you really feel like gifting people and this is one of those instances. I've been earning for an year now, and somehow felt its high time I gifted my dad.
At seven in the evening we (my parents and I ) headed towards Hyderabad Central..., for those who have been to Spencers Plaza at Chennai and Forum at Bangalore, HC is somehow a little smaller.... Probably the cosmopolitan crowd here isn't big enough to call for a better investment !!! No offence Hyderabadis..!!!
We reached the "Men's Section" and all we needed to do was - pick 3 shirts, head right to the billing counter, swipe the card and move on. But papa somehow emphasized that I help him select the shirts and here begins the trouble!!!
All of a sudden it dawned to me that at 22, I had no prior experience of buying shirts, not that its mandatory, but somehow I did feel a little odd. Anyways, there's always a first time and I started off, but then ...Oops!!! Nothing struck my confused right brain, have I not been checking out guys....And then I realized that these colour-complexion combinations never registered in my highly selective n restrictive grey matter !!! All that mattered to me was the 'overall picture'-Tall, fair, handsome....Now the third word gets a affirmative only if the 'overall picture' is perfect !!! This variable has many dependencies - build, feet (how well a person maintains his/her feet does speak volumes about his personality), smile, walk n blah blah blah ...many more not so listable parameters ;)) !!! But all I remembered was binary "Yes..Ok"..."No ..No so okay"..!!! All the other factors were always forgotten!!
After about 10 minutes of search, I left my parents at the Peter England counter, found a comfortable place near the staircase and decided to 'watch' !!! This time the focus was - complexion, build, shirt colour, n probably the brand!!! After about 30 minutes (my parents were still exploring the other brands), I got back to my dad and in a matter of 10 minutes, the selection was done..!!! Hey its not all that difficult eh..!!!
I guess from now on I would add a few more parameters to the attribute 'overall picture' n probably try and derive a few 'valuable lessons' from those not so important parameters..!!! "Rab jaane...kab kis 'skill' ki zaroorat pad jaye"..!!!??!!!
At seven in the evening we (my parents and I ) headed towards Hyderabad Central..., for those who have been to Spencers Plaza at Chennai and Forum at Bangalore, HC is somehow a little smaller.... Probably the cosmopolitan crowd here isn't big enough to call for a better investment !!! No offence Hyderabadis..!!!
We reached the "Men's Section" and all we needed to do was - pick 3 shirts, head right to the billing counter, swipe the card and move on. But papa somehow emphasized that I help him select the shirts and here begins the trouble!!!
All of a sudden it dawned to me that at 22, I had no prior experience of buying shirts, not that its mandatory, but somehow I did feel a little odd. Anyways, there's always a first time and I started off, but then ...Oops!!! Nothing struck my confused right brain, have I not been checking out guys....And then I realized that these colour-complexion combinations never registered in my highly selective n restrictive grey matter !!! All that mattered to me was the 'overall picture'-Tall, fair, handsome....Now the third word gets a affirmative only if the 'overall picture' is perfect !!! This variable has many dependencies - build, feet (how well a person maintains his/her feet does speak volumes about his personality), smile, walk n blah blah blah ...many more not so listable parameters ;)) !!! But all I remembered was binary "Yes..Ok"..."No ..No so okay"..!!! All the other factors were always forgotten!!
After about 10 minutes of search, I left my parents at the Peter England counter, found a comfortable place near the staircase and decided to 'watch' !!! This time the focus was - complexion, build, shirt colour, n probably the brand!!! After about 30 minutes (my parents were still exploring the other brands), I got back to my dad and in a matter of 10 minutes, the selection was done..!!! Hey its not all that difficult eh..!!!
I guess from now on I would add a few more parameters to the attribute 'overall picture' n probably try and derive a few 'valuable lessons' from those not so important parameters..!!! "Rab jaane...kab kis 'skill' ki zaroorat pad jaye"..!!!??!!!
