TOW ... Grocery Shopping !!

Come saturday and Sandeep becomes the official chauffer-cum-shopper of the Nair family .

Today's work involved :
A . taking Mommy Nair to the temple ,
B . dropping Sister Nair to the school ,
C . back with Mommy Nair to the Grocery shop .

(I think I've already covered A . B aint all tat interestin , will blog on tat wen it becomes one . so, C is wat we'll be focussin on , in this psot)

Now , I'm not very fond of Grocery shops , cuz well .... grocery shops are not exactly places one wud be fond of , but today's visit was kind of interesting .

For one I made new friends ... 5yr old Rohan , 6yr old Bunty and 6ish smthn Tinku and Golu .
The 5 of us had some major similarities :
A . we were sons of Indian mothers
B . we were all addressed by our pet names (saving maybe Rohan) in public !
C . we were all helping our moms , with all the grocery shopping stuff , on a Saturday morning instead of just sleeping , or watching Alf on POGO !!
D . we all were checking out this really cute 4yr old chick , Pinky .

Bunty tried really hard to lift the huge BigShopperBag half filled with veggies, and one could see that his mom was really proud to have a strong-mother-helping son , very few including me realised that he was actually trying to impress Pinky .
Pinky however remained totally oblivious to Bunty's acts of bravado .

All this brought back memories of my 5yr old days ...
And I noticed that things havent changed much since then , be it :
A . the rejection from women of same age ,
B . letting mothers encroach over our laying-around-time on weekends .
C . pretending to listen to her lectures on :
---a. how the price of tomatoes have gone up by 3 rupees and 64 paise .
---b. how the Iyers on the flat below us , and the Kapoors on the flat above could have saved enough to get their daughter(s) married in style , had they bought their veggies from this grocery shop and not the next .
---c. how mallus are the next best thing that have happened to the universe after the miraculous creation of the duck-billed-platypus !!
D . the embarassment caused when she addresses u by ur 'pet-name' , from the other end of the shop
E . the compulsive need to show that u r macho by lifting the bighoppers ( back then it was just biceps that mattered . now there are the pectoral and deltoid muscle groups too) ,
F . and again , mothers are the only ppl who think u are strong-n-smart and the only female who loves u !

The only things tat perhaps have changed are :
A . now the grocery shops are airconditioned , and there are no cows , or other species of the 'genus Bos', walking along u or behind u, trying to get a grub from the bigshopper , whilst u are busy raster-scanning , looking for females in futility !
B . there are cuter chicks to check out (the kind who would not go to the 'mandi' ,but dont mind making a visit to "Green-Veggie-Grosery-Shop" ...no , "I" did not spell it wrong!!)
C . now that u r a 20 yr old , u gotta be more careful .
---a. U have to make sure u dont stare at any one long enough to scare them .
---b. U have to move around in the crowd very carefully , making sure u dont accidentally graze any females' butt .... and definately not male's!!
---c. make sure that no "male" is trying to get his hand on ur butt !
D . for some vague reason , unlike the 20-ish females who found u cute and would fight the crowd to come and get piece of ur cheeks and say yucky things to do wit cuteness and sweetness and all tat crap ; the current-day 20 yr olds behave differently . very-differently :-(

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So we see that , Retrospection can be both fun and painful .
But its crazy how time flys .
k then , I shall get back to my well deserved "saturday-laying-around" bizness , afterall I had a busy morning .
Cya .

And oh-yeah , I think Bunty did manage to get Pinky's phone no. !!