I happened to be looking at my Savings and Credit Card account statements today and all I can see is Amazon, BigBasket, Amazon, BigBasket, Swiggy, Zomato, FlipKart….repeat ad infinitum! And I don’t think it’s just me. If I stand at my gate, I can see these guys dropping off package after package through the day…
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Doubting Thomas!
A doubting Thomas sent me a message questioning the unavailability of a camera on my Red Sea trip. He probably lives in Saudi Arabia now and it may seem inconceivable to him that we didn’t have a camera on us. I can understand where he is coming from though. This was almost 25 years back…
Beizzati on the beach!
Long back, our group of 3 couples and children undertook a long driving trip in peak summer from Riyadh to the Red Sea via other places. We landed up at the Al Birk beach, a stretch of sand with a few bare tents for rent and nothing and nobody else in sight. An Arab guy…
Dark grey stilettoes
My wife and I were just strolling along window-shopping in the mall when suddenly she asked me, “Wow! Did you notice the stilettoes that girl was wearing! Instinctively, I asked, “Which girl?” It was a genuine question. (Later social media told me that this is the best and safest response to such questions.) But really,…
Honeymoon Dampener!
We made a quick dash to Mahabaleshwar, a hill station near Bombay, for our honeymoon. It was short mainly because I couldn’t get leave but more importantly, that was all we could afford. We had made meticulous expense calculations for travel and stay, even choosing an all-inclusive hotel which would give us three meals on…
How I was Lost and Found!
It was my grandfather who gave me this OCD – Obsessive Cricket Disorder. The old man was crazy about cricket. He used to take me to see the Ranji matches at the Brabourne stadium. Those days Test matches were few and far between and Ranji matches were taken very seriously. The stadium used to be…
Riskless shopping!
I specifically go to the shop to buy one thing, remember to buy something that I had forgotten to buy two days back and forget to buy today’s item and come back home. So all my purchases are usually running behind by two days! That’s why if my wife asks me to go and buy…
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING! (written when on the bench in the US!)
– a letter from the US Dear friend, It was nice to see your email. I wanted to reply immediately but was too busy doing nothing. My company is exploiting me – they overload me with so much nothing that I struggle to keep up with my own personal activities – like replying to emails.…