Shop till you drop

It has been almost a couple of weeks. In the meantime, I have successfully taken my driving test, have been to the ophthalmologist, taken the second dose of Hepatitis B vaccine, visited Air India office, and, as the title suggests, shopped like I have never before. Non-stick pans, microwavable plates, glasses, cutlery. Formal shirts and trousers, informal T-shirts and jeans. Formal shoes, sneakers, sandals. Belts, purses (ok, that is in singular), backpacks (that’s in singular too). Not to mention the gifted clothes, and a brand new pressure cooker that my mom had. And I am yet to buy one luggage. Quite some progress in relatively short time.

Driving test could be your most hilarious experience if you are successful in maintaining your sense of humor. Being stranded for hours in the open on a July afternoon is bad. It’s worse if you haven’t had a proper meal. But by the end of it, I understood why we have so many road accidents in Calcutta. We had to drive for some 800 cm I guess (definitely less than a meter). The rest was all paperwork. And that takes the whole day!