Pigs on the Wing ...

Pune.

I am standing in line at the checkout counter at the grocery store, with my two packets of chips and a block of paneer. Third in line.

The nice couple at the counter have finished billing their million items and then proceed to have an extremely educated discussion with the clerk about whether the brand of Basmati Rice they bought is VFM.

Ten minutes.

There is a lady with a small kid in front of me. Both wearing masks. All of us are getting fidgety now.

I check my watch again.

Right next to where I am standing, is a stack of discount agarbattis for sale.

I have been sensitive to agarbattis since I was a kid.

I sneeze.

Woman in front looks at me with sheer terror in her eyes.

She grabs the kid and moves to the furthest counter just as the couple decide that their Basmati is actually the best.

I move in and place my goods on the counter.

WIN!

[Update]

Can I haz Home Delivery?

Recession? What Recession? Our Mobile Phone Salesmen travel in garishly painted Rollers.

The color palette might be distasteful, but Branson's choice of motor is spot on!

I guess all the money he saved on picking up F1's leading team for cheap has to go somewhere ... but dude .. keep it BLACK! It won't be much of a Phantom in two tone red and white, will it?

As the Text Message would say - GR8

Supercar spotting on S.B. Road.
After being foiled once by a truant watchman who understood the importance of light in the whole photographic scheme of things, attempt #2 appears to have worked somewhat.

In case you have already ordered this, and ran out of money before you could check mark the Carbon Ceramic brakes on the options list, there is one more aid to reduce those 100-0 times - one which is very much underrated. Again, spotted on S.B. Road.

Doping Dilemma

This thing adorning the skyline has caught my eye many times and as I wait for the lights to turn green, I wonder what exactly it is they were trying to say - and sell.

• It is a secure hideout for druggies - but then it should say 'demands'
  
• It is a secure hideout for druggies and this hoarding is an order directed at the people who run the place.
• Since it is not an official venue for anything, doping is fine.
• Other housing societies routinely conduct dope tests and its getting to be quite meddlesome. They don't - and that is their USP.
  

Other than implicit support for doping, I don't see what else this hoarding is trying to say. Perhaps it is something related to intrinsic semiconductors. But still, how is it going to help sell apartments?