Madnessssss

O God… What an experience………..thinkin of it now! I wonder what made me do it! Do what?? Go for the early morning Thanks Giving sales! 25^th Nov, its thanks giving day.. and this is what we were waiting for since I came to US.. kept hearing about Thanks Giving Sales… amazing deals…amazing stuff at take-away price!! But all this not without any efforts.. u got to go early morning to the stores.. and wait in the queue! Queue..?? What big deal..we are desis afterall.. standin in queues is nothing new for us..right?? That wont be tough…well read on… So what happened was that a couple of my (very smart) frenz made this wonderful plan.. of going to NY city in the night.. freak out all night in the city that never sleeps and then line up outside the stores and get the most amazing bargains…sounds fun?! Cmon said rachna.. what do we do otherwise…sit at home and sleep and do nothing fun.. so lets go!! Well good reason! (But stay up all night????!!) Anyways, get set n go-ing we were! 11 in the night left our dearest Harrison.. all enthusiastic and excited…and bundled up..(it was verrrrry cold yaar) .. …(Thanks giving sales here we come!!!) Out on the NY roads…not many people seemed to be as mad as us.. when its freezing cold outside and u are sleep deprived.. even the dazzle and glamour of Times Square doesn’t excite you. I mean it was fun to begin with.. we were a crazy bunch of people as if just arrived from Jhumri Tallaiya.. posing infront of every building and every shop window and every Billboard! The real fun was when we reached the Best Buy store at 3 am( Yes, we had not slept and we were on foot since the time we left home).. there was already a line (Are we in US?? Or is this some Langar?? ) Time seemed to have come to a standstill… every 10 min we checked the watch and it just had moved 1 min since the last time we saw!! Wat the hell!! Someone had a very sad sense of humor to play such a prank! What we were not aware of was that there was something better in store for us. In order to kill time we were day dreamin about all the wonderful things that we would get once we are inside.. and each one of us were making this shopping list in our minds! What a sleepy chilled out (literally) bunch of zombies we were now. It was finally 6 and we were let in.. we seemed to have regained all the josh ..

Wat happened next.. was quite an anti climax…don’t even want to think of it now.. too frustrated!! More never ending queues and bloody free stuff that is actually not FREE! We even had to argue for half an hour till they finally agreed! Have mercy guys..we are already too tired ..now don’t put us thru this!! Got back home at 11…(after 12hrs of torture!!) and slept! Still too sleepy … No more early morning thanks giving sales for me!!! All said and done..it was an experience that none of us would forget (not after all those snaps!!) Moral of the story…
” There is no such place as my cozy bed… n NO (absolutely NO) Thanks giving sale can keep me away from it!!!!”