Women and Shopping

Point of view of a harassed man

Image courtesy:uk.gizmodo.com

Shopping!!! The word generates an unmatched twinkle in the eyes of every woman I have known in my life. From my mother to my wife, I have seen them all react the same way to it. It is like some pre-programmed gene in their body suddenly takes over their senses.

Almost all the women I know find shopping therapeutic .They could happily go on at it from dawn till dusk, take a break for dinner, and then start all over again. Such trivialities in life like sleep and food doesn’t concern them. Scientists should research on this as an alternate source of energy to many of the world’s current energy crunches.

As someone who has endured enough of these excursions into the local shopping markets or malls, I consider myself as having a wealth of experience in their shopping habits. No matter what they have come out to buy, they will invariably be attracted to clothes, cosmetics, jewelery, foot wear and accessories. These are the things a woman can never get enough of.

Image courtesy: beconfused.com

They go into the first shop they see, pull down all the stocks they have and leaves the shop just as nonchalantly, which leaves the salesman pulling his hair out. They continue the same process till they covered all the shops in the mall/market. They then come back to the first shop they had entered and buy something, much to the relief of any man unfortunate enough to accompany them.

But nothing arouses the predatory instincts of women like the sign of sale in front of a shop. The scent of a sale is picked up across miles which would even put a champion greyhound to shame. The shop is staked out in advance and they try to get their hands on the goods ahead of others based on pure natural instinct. Their struggle for their favorite piece would rival even those of a hungry pack of wolves.

The man’s role in all this varies based on his relationship with the woman. If he is a father to the lady, he is seen as an inexhaustible ATM. If it is an earning brother, then he is equitable to credit card which you don’t have to pay back. If he is a son, then he is a porter to carry the luggage as well as a bodyguard. But the worst of the lot is the husband /boyfriend who is expected to play all of the above said roles as well as give their expert opinion while choosing goods.

Men would never understand the importance of the ritual of shopping to a woman. Women find solace in shopping to lift them up when they are sad. They also see it as an avenue to express their joy when they are happy. It is an opportunity for them to meet other women friends and have a good time. If women were to head all the countries of the world they can solve major conflicts over a shopping session. They could also create World War 3 over the most innocuous of scarves too.

Image courtesy: anezbizz.com

With that I will have to stop this post because I hear my wife calling me to go out for shopping. Lord have mercy on me !!!

Stray Dog Menace

Stray dogs Rules Indian Roads !!!

Dogs enjoy every right while children get killed!

Recent paper reports are enough to send shock waves to parents all around our towns like “stray dogs maul slum-dwellers daughter”, 10 year old Kavita’s death on 16^th January 2007 due to stray-dog attacks at Bhogewandi or Stray-dog bites twenty people in Bangalore etc.

The government machinery generally rude and unkind to law abiding citizen who pay there taxes is very magnanimous to antisocial elements, violent protesters and stray-dogs. There are so many of them to make life difficult for ordinary people whether they are dogs or antisocial elements doesn’t matter all live on the “magnanimity of the local governments. Bangalore the IT capital of India is not just an example but one of the worst cases where anti-socials and stray-dogs roam free.

They have “human rights” which our children haven’t.

Dogs were always there as it is presumed that Indian roads lose its glamour without one or two dogs and some cows and goats wandering free and feeding on what is available. When their population increased government machinery used to wake up and these animals were exterminated by some or other methods. Recently the policy had undergone a change and the “human rights” were extended to stray-dogs also. When “stray activists” become ministers and wield unlimited powers, any thing can happen. Awarding of human-rights to stray-dogs is not an aberration it is part and parcel of their policies!

“Stray activists”

The only tragedy was there were no counter activists to confront these “stray-activists” other wise some mad dogs would have been let loose on these stray-activists who are the real culprits for these most tragic instances which occasionally take place on Indian streets. Just think of a lonely child on a lonely street surrounded by dozens of dogs tearing and eating its organs before the child is dead.

No VIP vitims.

If the parent of the child happened to be a VIP there would have taken place some swift action, but VIP children never have to walk alone through deserted streets in such times. Hence there are no actions on the part of the local governments and the “activist minister” responsible for these tragedies roam free on the streets, no one dares question the minister lest get beaten up by the minister’s securities.

The modern Pilates.

Even now dogs with “human rights” roam free and the central government is not pressured to amend such eccentric laws put in place by activists. Local governments wash off their hands saying all these are laws of the Central Government and they can do nothing but obey! What an ideal obedience, when children of poor people are eaten away by street dogs they look other side quoting obedience!

There are many other laws.

How many other laws are there to which the local bodies give scant regard, giving protection to human life is perhaps the least obeyed law by our local bodies. They never get time to think of human life as they are fully immersed in giving protection to dogs’ rights. When chicken flu was here how many chicken were killed, why can’t that law applied to these stray dogs?

Next election’s issue, dog or man?

When stray-dogs and antisocial elements celebrate their human rights, it is the common man who is pushed to the receiving end; the next election should be fought on only one issue, who possess human rights dogs or human beings? Only those who stand for human beings should see the assembly, the others who are bound to serve the dogs can ask for only dog’s vote.