it was the time just about half past after sunset. the heat was a bit low,the breeze had squigled its way through.Off i go to fethch my mother from her work place.after the day's activities and of course boredom! roaming the city in the traffic jams all over from my house to the destination. the ride as well as the traffic was pretty smooth flowing until we hit the jubilee hills check post area where the traffic was at a halt of ten minutes i guess. simply talking the girly gossips, both mother and daughter decide that after almost a years of the production of swat bats that are used to swat mosquitoes and flies, it's high time we bought one for ourselves due to the increase of mosquitos.
Now, if whoever has already bought those swatters before, i think and i hope you would have bought it for about 40 or 50 bucks per racket. But the shock my mother and i had was when a vendor or salesman who we had stopped to buy this swatter from, announced that the bat was for 300 bucks and o did i mention, before we even asked, both mum and i dug into our respective handbags searching for 40-50 bucks. so this man, tries to sell this swatter , he himself doing our bargaining bit, by trying to reduce the price to 250 rupees. immediately we declined the offer and i rolled up my window and said thanks! BUT no, the men do not give up so easy do they???
noo noo they dont! reluctantly he again lowered the bid for it to 200/- and we still said no. he kept forcing us to buy it even with the windows shut he refused to give up and try elsewhere.
now only a stupid person would settle in for something of that sort. so anyway we left and headed to our favourite Maharaja Chaat Bundi!
ahhan!! the smell of sweet and sour Pani poori or like the english say "water balls"!! hah!!
the yummmy taste of spices blended with sweet and sour chutneys that are poured over the golden brown puri's, and on top of that the most soothing and cooling ingredient, the yougurt poured over it all and golden fried flour sticks or what we call sev, sprinkled on it; just alike adding a cherry on top of a cake!
oh the yummy street side savoury! god bless them for it!
mouth watering delicacies. my favourite! a plate of hot buttered buns with curry, that's the famous and most relished dish of mine!!
well sorry to break it up now, but after i was done, stomach full. we left back for home. at another traffic signal, we noticed that the same vendor came running to our car and offered a 100 bucks for the swatter! wah! men sure dont give up ater saying no! or should i say some men cannot take NO! for an answer! sheeesh! well it was funny because even after telling the guy that we still didn't want it, he didn't listen but insisted we take it! sorry man! ur loss of the day!!
well im not really sure why i wrote this but its just that sometimes, we encounter such incidents that we gota be really careful. Being aware of Conmen is one thing!And well that's that! that's the story of how we almost got conned into buying something really expensive whereas it's worth just a 1.5 litre bottle of sprite or coke and a packet of gems!
Now, if whoever has already bought those swatters before, i think and i hope you would have bought it for about 40 or 50 bucks per racket. But the shock my mother and i had was when a vendor or salesman who we had stopped to buy this swatter from, announced that the bat was for 300 bucks and o did i mention, before we even asked, both mum and i dug into our respective handbags searching for 40-50 bucks. so this man, tries to sell this swatter , he himself doing our bargaining bit, by trying to reduce the price to 250 rupees. immediately we declined the offer and i rolled up my window and said thanks! BUT no, the men do not give up so easy do they???
noo noo they dont! reluctantly he again lowered the bid for it to 200/- and we still said no. he kept forcing us to buy it even with the windows shut he refused to give up and try elsewhere.
now only a stupid person would settle in for something of that sort. so anyway we left and headed to our favourite Maharaja Chaat Bundi!
ahhan!! the smell of sweet and sour Pani poori or like the english say "water balls"!! hah!!
the yummmy taste of spices blended with sweet and sour chutneys that are poured over the golden brown puri's, and on top of that the most soothing and cooling ingredient, the yougurt poured over it all and golden fried flour sticks or what we call sev, sprinkled on it; just alike adding a cherry on top of a cake!
oh the yummy street side savoury! god bless them for it!
mouth watering delicacies. my favourite! a plate of hot buttered buns with curry, that's the famous and most relished dish of mine!!
well sorry to break it up now, but after i was done, stomach full. we left back for home. at another traffic signal, we noticed that the same vendor came running to our car and offered a 100 bucks for the swatter! wah! men sure dont give up ater saying no! or should i say some men cannot take NO! for an answer! sheeesh! well it was funny because even after telling the guy that we still didn't want it, he didn't listen but insisted we take it! sorry man! ur loss of the day!!
well im not really sure why i wrote this but its just that sometimes, we encounter such incidents that we gota be really careful. Being aware of Conmen is one thing!And well that's that! that's the story of how we almost got conned into buying something really expensive whereas it's worth just a 1.5 litre bottle of sprite or coke and a packet of gems!
