Cheapos!!!!

Another Monday at work.... Why can't we have only Fridays at work???..... I wonder

Over the weekend, I was roaming around the malls of the 'Millenium City' as they like to call it with a friend and we happened to cross two stores, a Spencer's outlet and a Big Bazaar outlet.... We decided to enter the Spencer's outlet only to realise that we committed the biggest mistake of a lifetime....

I was watching a video recently by Russell Peters where he makes a statement that 'Indians are cheap'. Now being an Indian, I thought it was all hogwash.... but trust me, when I entered Spencer's supermarket, I understood and realised that yes, we are cheap and we are reallllllllyyyyy cheap!!! Let me start with the entry... There was a single file of people entering in all readiness to empty the store... All wives had successfully convinced/threatened their husbands to bring them here..... As we went along the aisles, it was distressing to see the kind of madness that was on inside.... We happened to cross an aisle where vegetables were being sold... Spencer's had put up a board that onions were available at Rs 9/kilo.... The rush at that particular counter could only be compared to a Tirupati or a Vaishno Devi... It was madness... Moving on, at an aisle further down from the vegetable aisle there were a lot of readymade foods with all kinds of offers on them.... Here again there was a mad rush..... All this madness ended at the checkout line where there was atleast a 10 feet line at every counter (there were 5 in total..) and the saddest part was that you had to stand in th eline even if ou wanted to just leave the place... So both of us stood there like dumbos for abt half an hour before we were able to egt out.. Now this line was like a railway reservation line - the women were trying to surge ahead to form a seperate line.... Kids crying.... Husbands frustrated et al.....

Now comes the best part of the story..... Both of us estimated that atleast 90% of the families there had a combined annual income of atleast 18-20 lakhs.... But still,, everybody wants a discount store!!!!!! People had driven down from 7-8 kms away in their Honda City to buy onions cos they were available at 9/kilo..... Now thats how cheap we can get!!!!

To all those patriotic Indians reading this, believe me, I am also equally patriotic and I love my country for watever it is.... But, WE ARE CHEAP!!! and we need to live with that fact in life!!!!

Regards