<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=513288" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shopping Sickness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My shrewd wife has just<br>returned from a ‘Top Class Retail Mall ‘<br>with a loud rejoice that she has<br>‘saved' a big three thousand four hundred<br>by shopping only in ‘discount sale, '<br>at the end of 3 hour afternoon ‘marathon'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">curiously, I peeped into the <br>a meter-length printed bill -<br>final tally was seven thousand one hundred.<br>she did'nt return to me, <br>the so-called, cosy discount in cash: <br>‘how sensible I am'- She is shouting back<br> from the dressing room, in a triumphant slang</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She immediately, rang up her mother in Manamadurai<br>to proclaim the gains, she managed <br>from the three-tier hunting floors</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Basmati rice, Badam milk, Jamoon mix, <br>Razor blades, ready-mix powders, no-good soups<br>failed cosmetics, fast expiring, unmoved stocks & fancy<br>Kargil blankets, rejected ready-mades, air- tight plastics, <br>things thrown overboard from a sinking ship<br>one plus one and two plus one, of no regular use<br>are under distress sale, christened as ‘bargain sale'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am also at loss to know<br>how the ‘discount' works<br> <br>in terms of my budgetary share, <br>her casual shopping for rupess<br>seven thousand - is one fifth<br>of my take-home pay.<br>………..how I will manage, to the Heavens I pray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Santhana+Louis">Santhana Louis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=513288" data-title="Shopping Sickness de Santhana Louis" data-description="My shrewd wife has just returned from a ‘Top Class Retail Mall ‘ with a loud rejoice that she has ‘saved' a big three thousand four hundred by shopping only in ‘discount sale, ' at the end of 3 hour afternoon ‘marathon' curiously, I pee..."></div> </div> </div>

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