Last night when I was enjoying my daily dose of weepy soaps and laughable reality shows alongwith crispy homemade aloo ke parathe slathered with butter, I heard my phone tinkle with the arrival of an SMS. Thinking it must be one of the sales managers updating me with their day's sales on my personal number, I ignored it, knowing it could wait till I got the buttery goop off my fingers. After a couple of minutes, the phone buzzed angrily again, reminding me of my duty to check the SMS.
I discovered it was a message from Book Palace, a quaint little bookstore which I had stumbled upon while searching for a hardware store.
'Great discounts, amazing offers, many deals- on your favourite authors! Rush now! Hurry- valid till stocks last. Make the most of it TODAY!' screamed the message in all it's urgency. Today? Now? At 9:16 pm? The store itself shut at 9pm! They wanted me to visit a shut store possibly, to plunder it? Well however great my love for books, I was surely never going to stoop to such a low level! Me- steal? Never!
Obviously their SMS scheduler had run into timing problems. Or maybe they had a large database and my name, comprising of two last names had made it to the very last of their lists.
Whatever the case was, I was certainly miffed, especially since I had to cut short my delicious dinner.
When I visited the store next, I pointed this out to the cashier, a buck toothed geeky oily fellow who looked like a character from one of the books themselves.
What can we do, madam? These cellphone operators!- and with that, he cleanly shrugged off all responsibility towards the offending message.
As for me, I now keep my phone on silent during important meal times. That way, I am tempted to HURRY! LAST DAY! TODAY! only in the land of dreams- as I check my phone last thing before dropping off to sleep!
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