Sriram headed out with his wife on a Sunday evening to shop things randomly. He had wishes and plans to purchase a new digital camera and probably upgrade his cellphone. The dailies were flooded with advertisements on holiday sales that nobody could resist. Sriram reached to an electronic store that displayed digital cameras with special prices for the festive and holiday season. When he picked the camera in hand, his mind calculated and converted the price on the tag to its US dollars and realized it was still 50% higher than the prices he had seen on US retail websites like amazon. He quickly decided to give up buying it and instead ask his colleague, Ashwin, who was returning home from the United States to buy the same model from there.
Ashwin was living his final month of his deputation in the United States of America. He somehow managed the five months with the Indian spices and the cereals he had brought from his home. One day, he wanted to eat nice Indian food at a restaurant. On a weekend, with so much eager and admiration that he had ever had, he visited one such Indian restaurant and walked in to have his meal. He looked slowly at the menu one by one and looked at the prices against each. He calculated and converted the prices to its Indian equivalent that ended up at a number that is about ten times, if it had bought the same in his home. He decide to pursue the dinner but, wait until reaching home to have his desirous Indian food.
I often find myself thinking like different persons.
2 comments:
Haha haha How many times havent i heard people talk to me in the converted language.
It's actually pissing when people do that. It s an indication of the non adaptability to the new environment
Once in Rome, do like the romans do. That would save doing needless calculations. I had actually experienced the reverse of wat u had written :D Many times I felt that electronic gadgets cud be brought in Chennai itself at comparable prices rather than someone carrying it all the way from US to save hardly 200-300 bucks(ofcourse there are some exceptions too :P)
And whenever I ate in an Indian Restaurant in US, which I did atleast once every weekend when I was there, I just think $10 as Rs.10, since the very conversion factor will spoil ur enjoyment of having an Indian food out of home :D The content feel that u get after having that food which u missed for so many months is priceless ;-)
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