Sale

The newspaper in spouse’s hand, in general, is the prime source of instigating this latent desire of shopping in MANkind. ‘Limited period’ nature of the offer further pushes you to participate in hordes along with fellow cityzens with similar agenda during this time of the year! The omnipresent loud printed feeds of 30% and up to 70% discount fuel your appetite to drape yourself in choicest of brands. The world seems to be an inviting mall and as mind always thinks in pictures we start visualizing ourselves akin to favorite look which sometimes the bear belly or sometimes the pocket does not allow, but the thought of a sale surely stimulates the dormant mirror affair we enjoyed in our teenage and pokes you for a re jig of your wardrobe.

Love is not the only glue between human beings but shopping IS. The magnetism is quiet evident as you fall in queue bumper to bumper at the entrance of the mall. The life size hoardings giving complex BODMAS of freebies defuse you sense of differentiation but somehow the wives I have felt have better nerves to remember and decode the formula something got to do with Mars and Venus theory I guess! Parking at this time of the year is the scarcest commodity and having done that the mind further starts seducing your credit card as you see branded shopping bags held like bouquets by your fellow cityzens.

Confusion becomes the mentor of desire and the one shop where the entire city is jostling its elbows triggers the Me Too! Needless to say you will not find exactly what you wanted but be ready to put an extra effort for a re visit on a weekday as the size and color you ever wanted is just short of one piece especially for you! Once out of this shop you head to gun down a still better brand to quench the rising levels of adrenalin. Good things attract good effort and hence you are undeterred by the long waiting queue for the trial room. By this time, the swelling crowd in the mall running berserk for shopping, glides you to the extremes of your budgets and you may think it to be too obvious to stretch as the world is running short of pure goodies(on discount)!

Shopping for that aspiring pair of jeans or spouses saree, during Sale is like a treasure hunt with no clues at all, and on the mission like a hermit you tend to pick all that you never wanted. Brands in your hands make you feel happy and the calculator in the mobile and your brain goes on a sleep mode as you know you that this season you can afford to buy more than you bought last year! After all I am a smart shopper!! To re assure the victory of brands over the affordability you take a small break in the food court and off course better brands attract better food and you settle for one step ahead of the run on the mill bite otherwise! Calories galore, you convince yourself that walking endlessly shop to shop in a mall will knock of the extra kilos.

Fresh energy in the body might result in strategic thinking of shopping in opposite directions but MEN will be men and shopping was never a game they were cut out for. However, the tired and lethargic limbs further switch off the mind and you start floating with the crowd frequently getting snubbed for failing to recommend the best pick to your spouse. After few minutes the head becomes to nod in effortless YES every time she is out o a trial room…you hide your indifference to the best of your abilities but those looks have indicated her well that its time to call it a day with only that much of booty.

On the way back, you get an assurance of getting relieved from such ordeals next time, as a manufacturing defect in all the men and I happen to be the worst of the best in this case. While we both work silently in our minds on the number of credit card swipes we end up with a resolution for not shopping so much for next few years/seasons/days….

The Sale is on!!