Its that time of the month.
Hold on to the reigns of your thoughts for a moment guys. I am
talking about the time when you pick a piece of paper and start practicing the
alphabets for adults –
A for Aata
B for Besan
C for Chai
D for Daal
and so on. You visit the distant corners of your modular
kitchen, open each shelf and each pet jars to check if you need a refill and
add the item nevertheless to your list, just to get the value for money that you spend on
fuel when you drive your car to D’Mart or BigBazar or Namdhari’s or Nilgiri’s.
And as you drive your way to these stores, or should I say
Malls, dreading about the size of the mob you might encounter there, your FM radio informs you that you are
an idiot to be grocery shopping in the real world when there is a plethora of
web apps and mobile apps that can take you to the virtual shopping world. You
might as well be the Alice of your wonderland where you don’t have just one,
but several bottles that say “DRINK ME” and several packets that say “EAT ME”.
Disclaimer : None of those will make you grow too big and shrink too small.
You recall that your next door geeky couple never go
grocering and have things delivered to their house or sometimes to your house
when they are not around. So you decide
to give it a try next month when you are PGS-ing(pre grocering syndrome –
Trademark registered). You are excited
to see such products available that you had never heard of . You search some of
these items on google to know the ingredients and the nutrition facts. Oh, and
there is a comparator listing down the criteria on which a product differs
across different chains. And then you realize that you have spent the entire
Saturday evening in your bed , with your laptop on your lap, viewing the exotic
therapeutic oil you never needed before, exotic sounding seeds and nuts that
supposedly help in losing weight or gaining weight, that Ready to Eat Sooji
halwa mix(seriously ? how lazy can you be)
Don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against online grocery stores.
But you better pay a visit to your next door geeky couple to master the art of
ordering online.
As for me, I get nostalgic thinking of the times when we
used to make 2 copies of a list, one for the local kirana wala and another for
us kids to cross check, striking off the items matched, shying away to call out
in presence of father when it came to sanitary napkins . Those days.
