Aaaaauuuuttttttooooo
Han bhaiya, ccentral market jaoge kya.
Han ji, zaroor chalenge.
Kitna lagega
Madam 70 rupayee lag jaayenge
Bhaiya, dene wali baat batao. Hum Roz jaate hain.(if you have to go daily, why don’t you fix an auto on monthly basis)
Chalo madam, 65 mein le chalenge.
Zyada le rahe ho bhaiya
Chalo 60 de dena.
chalo.
After you sit in the auto, he would put on the Radio in the top volume, set the mirror and there the journey starts.
The most common habit of autowallas are that they think they would succeed in taking the shortest route possible. And for this, they would not miss any of the gallis.
Arre bhaiya ye kahan se le jaa rahe ho.
Madam wahan us red light mein traffic jam hota hai. Aur yahan se chota padega.
Acha theek hai.(as if you have an option)
He apparently ends up taking the longest route possible and that too through small, narrow roads which are already so conjested. But would be contended as a triumphant in avoiding the major traffic jams.
Well once you reach the market, you feel the relief.
The moment one steps into the market, the hawkers start calling you to their shops.
Aayie madam. Yahan 50% discount chal raha hai.
The hawkers are on with their slogans, Le jaao bhai, le jaao, 100 rupayee mein 2 le jaao.
They will call you to their shops as though they are going to give you stuffs for free.
You start feeling as though you have ended up in an ocean of clothes, shoes and accessories.
Anyways, those who are familiar with the market and know what they are looking for, can head to the concerned shops. Rest, if you end up stopping at even a single hawker, then you are gone. The shopkeeper would make sure that you shed your money on their stuffs.
You start scanning through the stuffs and by chance you end up liking some stuffs, but feel that it is worth a little less than what the shopkeeper is quoting, and start bargaining, that it.
Ye kitne ka hai.
Madam, ye tho 250 ka hai.
Arre bhaiya, dene wali baat batao.
Acha aapke liye kam laga denge. 240 de dena.
10 rupaye mein kya hoga bhaiya.(You end up saying bhaiya so many times and to so many people that by this time, you would be having dozens of them)
Acha madam aap batao, kitna doge.
200 se ek paisa zyada nahin.
Nahi madam, ye tho bohut kam ho jaayega.
Tho phir nahi chahiye. And you start walking off slowly(with the hope that he would call back). You can judge that if he calls you back, then he is ready to bargain further.
Arre madam baat tho suniye. You act as if you have not heard him. He raises his voice, Haanji madam, Suniye, aayiye, idhar tho aayiye.
Bhaiya humne bata diya hai aap dena hai tho do.
Chalo 225 main le jaao.
Arre bhaiya bola na 200 se ek paisa zyada nahin.(though there would be just the difference of mere 25 bugs) Theek hai 210 mein final.
Chalo de do.
Like this you end up yelling at 3 to 4 hawkers, and would have a great feeling that you have such a good bargaining power and that the shopkeeper had to agree to you in the end.
By this time you start feeling thirsty and hungry because all your energy has gone in bargaining, you end up buying a bottle of soft drink, and would head to the famous golgappa wala.(Water balls).
That’s the most relishing part. Bhaiya suji ke golgappe, usme saunt zyada aur mirchi kam.
(the golgappa wala is so confused as each of his customer is asking for varied combinations)
And in all this, if he happens to mix up with your instructions then he is gone.
Bhaiya bola tha na, saunt zyada. And the other one will shout, bhaiya bola na saunt bilkul nahi…. And his life goes on listening to this the whole day.
And at the end of it all, you feel that you have shopped very little when you see your baggage, but when you check your purse, you realize that you have ended up spending more than what you had expected.
And now you realize that it is time to get back home. So you again go calling an auto.
Auuuuuttttttoooooo. And the same story continues. But this time you are in no mood to bargain. But still would not give up.
Bhaiya theek paise batao.
Arre madam, wahan se khaali wapas aana hota hai.(Now you want no more arguments and so end up agreeing)
Acha chalo.
So like this the much awaited shopping is done on one of the weekends. You end up feeling as if you have completed a major task.
Well, shopping can best be done in this market as you get almost everything. Also this market serves the requirements of people from all class.
There are all the major showrooms, for those who prefer only branded stuffs. And there are so many hawkers and small shops, for those who are not so brand concious.
Overall a good market.
Thank you for reading my review.
