Bhaiyaa Bole

Monday, July 31, 2006

Crowd at the shop entrance...

You came to pune. You saw the beautiful nearby hills, you had Ramnath's missal, roamed around FC Rd, had some good and not-so-good experience with the old markets of Laxmi-Rd-kind and had a pretty good understanding of puneri attitude. And you thought you had seen it all....Well, well, well; i thought so till yesterday. :)
Y'day i went to buy a raincoat from this good old "Ramesh dyeing" on Laxmi Rd. Its famous for its quality and reasonable price. By the time i parked the bike somewhere in the vicinity, it had started drizzling. Probably thinking of the heavy traffic and avoiding the mud, i reached the shop. I saw a big crowd waiting outside this shop. I thought they are taking shelter from the rain. Inconspicuously, I tried to enter the shop only to be stopped by a person at the entrance and instructed to be in the queue. Yes my Dear friend, the crowd outside was a queue for buying rain-wear from that small shop !!! I peeped inside and the shop was jam packed. I understood the reason and got inside the queue smiling first at the crowd's patience and then on mine :). There were all kind people in the queue, ranging from young to old, waiting for their turn to enter the shop and meet their rain-induced needs. Jai Ho pune Ki