Friday, 18 April 2014

The Wrong Number


                                             
        Shirish Gondhale racked his brains hard.  Since when had he started shopping in malls?  He couldn’t afford to shop in one, even in his wildest of dreams!  He shopped only at the local ‘kirana’ stores that opened at 6.30 a.m. and closed only at 12 midnight!  Helpful salesmen and reasonable prices, convenient and homely; what more could he possibly want?  He had never even had the urge to splurge his hard-earned money on the fancy packaged goods, highly priced to boot; sold by snooty salesmen at all those glass and steel excesses!
         

The copyright of this story is with Mrs. Priya Ramesh Swaminathan.

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