The Furobiker

I have discovered it lately, that i do not dislike shopping!
I mean its a real pain going shopping with your mom, sis or gf, as you tend to drink tonnes of coke, have some buckets of sweetcorn, 2 plates of alu chaat and come back to discover that they have finally shortlisted 5 dresses out of the whole store. And now, they just need to finalize one out of those 5. Phew! Time to have round 2 of the coke, corn and chaat! :P :P

Oh well, if you are one of the unlucky fellows, you might need to skip the foodie stuff and stand outside the changing room for hours to comment on what looks fine and what not. Though your opinion will be turned down anyways! :D ( Come on, dont be shy, every real man goes through this embarrassment some day! We are all together in this :D )

But anyways, we are not talking about that today..

I have always been a fan of the stores which also sell online. Just log in, pick up that book or that wireless router and you are gone in 60 seconds! But these days, i am loving the shopping experience in the Hyper-Marts here! They are really of the size of football fields! :D :D Right from a pen, to any types of food items, to clothes, car accessories, electronics (including TV and fridges) and God knows what, these guys have every single thing!!

Yeah, i know i am talking like a village guy, who goes into a big city and sends a handwritten letter by snail-mail to his hometown describing the biiig city! But seriously, food + clothes + cars + electronics in the same store, i have not seen them anywhere. I think i see a big business opportunity when i come back to India. ;) With a slight modification though, i will keep couches or seats at every few meters, saala, is umra me ek sath itna chala nahi jaata! :D :D

But the funny thing is, in the same mall (where this hyper-mart is), there is this baba aadam ke zamaane ka movie hall! I logged in to its website to book a ticket for the famous facebook movie, after which everyone is going crazy these days. And guess what! The website developer forgot to install the shopping cart software on that website! You can book the ticket, select your show and seats, enter your name and information, but cant pay, and have to reach 45 minutes before the show to pay and pick up the tickets! I swear to God, if i knew how to talk in Romanian, i would have definitely went and asked - So why did you create a website in the first place? :P

I guess these guys are countering recession in the wrong way! Instead of cutting down on the special agents who keep on roaming around during the movie to make sure no one is doing chiggi-wiggi in the hall, these guys cut down their ecommerce hosting costs :P :P

Coming back to the topic of me liking shopping, i realized it today while checking my expenses for this month. I don't think i will ever use about 55% of the stuff i bought in the last 30 days! And i don't even know why i bought it in the first place! I guess that is a big sign of liking shopping. isn't it ? :D :D

Aah, i just got an idea about diwali gifts for next year...