Silku's Day Out with Saji! ( in Silku's own words.... poor Silku)
It was another boring Sunday morning…and myself and Saji decided to go out and buy Churi for Heerapi’s marriage….After my church service I was waiting at the shop…trying to reach Saji on her ‘Samsung touch screen’ which as usual was switched off…. After a short wait at the Madiwala Churi shop…our ‘heroine’ came dashing in…..and all the sales boys were at ‘Madam’s’ service.
Disclaimer: While you read “Madam’s” dialogue…don’t forget to adopt her sqeaky tweaky voice and this time in HINDI!
Sales boy1: Madam, what kind of churi do you want….What’s your price range?
Madam: Wait! Meh check karthi hum..ki mere pas kitne paisa hei…
Opens her handbag, takes 100 rs notes, counts one by one and confirms…
Madam: Mere paas 1000rs hei…muje cotton churiday dikhayie…
Sales boy 2 turns to go through the ordeal of taking all the churis from the rack …when saji madam runs to a set of churis neatly put in a stack at one end of the shop….
She looks at each of the churi in the rack and halfway through she started getting spasms by balancing the churis above with her single hand..
Madam: Bhayya….yeh dikhayie mujhe…vo neche rakah hua na…voo….dikhayiye..dihkayiye…..
Madam turns to a amused me and tells: Oh! Talrnnu….
Finally Madam selects two from the lot…so she is 900 Rs down from her budget of 1000…..She goes on to check some materials over there…the sales man ,foreseeing another potential sale…
Sales Man: Leh lilijiye…madam…..achi quality heii…sirf 170 hei….
Madam: Hmm…Mujhe…janthi hu……mere pas heii…lekhi..is colur ki bottom nahi hei meri paaas….
Sales man: lijiye na..madam,,
Madam: Ok…yeh bhi pack kar do…lekhin..mere paas…sirfff….100 [peeks into the bag…counts 3 10rs note and then continues…] ha…130 rs hei….
Sales Man: lekhin ye..170 rs ka hei..
Madam: Vo teeekh hei..agali bar adjust karke deti huuuu…OK….(this I think she adopted the shopkeepers dialogue….because…this as far as I know…is usually told to the buyer by the giver…I was prepared for the “remarks” the sales man was going to throw at us…but was surprised when the sales man told …Teekh hei madam!!!! )
As I looks on….Saji waves the salesman 1 and 2 goodbye(red-carpet style) …and we went into a bakery as I was feeling hungry…
I had a snack and ‘Madam’ bought a Frooti. As we were walking towards the bus-stop….a small boy came behind us…asking to give him the frooti...
He was behind ‘Madam’ for sometime…so she felt pity and went into the next bakers to buy the boy SOMEthing!
The problem was ‘Madam’ didn’t know what THING to buy!!!!!So she deploys one of her another brilliant plan from her kitty…
Madam: [Holding a 10rs note in her hands is asking the small boy now standing in front of the store] : kya chahiye……
The boy looks whole over the store in wonder…
Madam tries again…
Kya chahiye….bolona…..boloooo….(don’t forget the queaky tweaky)
Now as I look-on from outside the store, hardly suppressing my laughs..
….both ‘the boy’ and ‘the Madam’ are looking into the store with equal wonder in their eyes…
….The shop-keepers and the servers over there are looking at the duo in amusement in theirs…
Epilogue: To my luck without causing further scene…finally Madam decided on a Frooti pack and gave it to the boy…both went happy on their way home!
As I started teasing her at home she is giving an explanation for her exploits to heerapi..in b/w her perception about the boy is as follows..: Sho athu bhikshakaran polathe kochano..…athinte dress oke kandappo njan vicharichu veruthe oru kochu vannu ennodu frooti chodiche aanennu….
Myself and Heerapi: SPEECHLESS!!!!!!!
Thanks to Saji who lightened up our boring SUNDAYJ!
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