Saturday 15 September 2012

Yesterday...


....we went to a Mall.

Never again
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We managed to lose some money in the first 1/2hr itself…..alright alright I lost the money.

We walked back & forth endlessly to register a complaint. The better-half thought it was useless but I was like 'We are not going to lose anything, are we???'. We did. We lost 80 precious minutes.

The kids didn’t get the books they were hoping to pick up[which was why we were in the mall in the first place] and were very disappointed.

It was just 8pm but we prudently decided to go home while the going was good.

The world-famous driverless Dubai metro broke down; all passengers were directed to alight at some random station and wait for buses to take them home. 

The metro officials called us back after 15 mins and announced that the metro will drop us in the next station....which it did....but which again was in the middle of nowhere.

The 2 buses provided for the emergency finally arrived and saw 4 busloads of people clambering inside & another 2 busloads outside trying to get a leg in. We didn’t even bother, just stood at the peripherals and watched the entertaining absorbing sight.

The kids who make it their business to check out the rest-rooms in a mall forgot their routine.

We tried to flag down taxis but others got there first till there were no more taxis.

We gave up and started walking. Walking in the humidity was NOT funny especially when we were not even sure if it was in the right direction.

Somewhere inbetween Nikita's sandal strap gave up adding to her our woes; with that Nikita burst into tears.

We were hungry, thirsty and not a restaurant in sight.

There was lots of time for contemplation….
*we wondered if Friday the 13th got her dates mixed up.
*the kids decided adventures were just NOT their thing and will be very careful in future about what they wished for.
*the better-half was grimly striding in front of us, like as if he got information that the country was going to war.
*I was critically examining the episode from all angles; after all the first post after a blog-break must not in any way reflect the blogger's fear that her skills may have rusted.

And just like that a fast-food joint came up on the horizon and we rushed in for sustenance.

The food was lousy but we ate it stoically; nothing was going to be taken for granted any more.

And reviewed our situation….we spent the last of our money on the meal and there was not a single ATM in the vicinity.

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We reached home around 12.30am


Never again will we bunk church to go mall-crawling.


43 comments:

  1. Oh Nancy. Glad you got home at last!
    Your post so reminded me of the time Geoff and I were in Dubai, flagging cabs at night and looking for places to eat... very happy memories for me. Next time I'm in Dubai I'd love to go get some coffee and falafel with you.

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  2. It was an experience....reminded us that for all her growth & progress, some part of Dubai are still what it was a decade back:-).
    Agnes I can't get into ur page anymore...is there anybody else who has the same problem:-((??

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  3. Oh so mall hopping was the reason that was keeping you from blogging?? I was starting to wonder if you were planning for production no. 3 you know ;)

    First of all I salute your husband who came along with you to the mall. Mine has not seen one for god knows how many years. He starts showing all the symptoms of a pregnant lady if I drag him to one and god forbid if we had a day like you had in the mall, he will tie me up in the kitchen for good and take away all the cards!!!

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    1. Mall-hopping happens whether I blog or not;-D @2nd bit - shubh shubh bolo*shudder shudder*

      Oh the H is a nice guy that way...always ready to take us out;-D. As for ur H...maybe u shd use reverse psychology;-D.

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  4. Ha Ha Ha. may you have many more days such as this if that's what it takes to get you to blog :)

    And yes yes yes yes ; your skills will certainly rust if you don't use them .....

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    1. Nooooooo....take that back, take that baaack...
      ;-ooooooo. Any more of it & I'll have to shut down the blog.
      Skills will but since I was being tongue-in-cheek it doesn't hold good;-P

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    1. Hehe I totally enjoyed myself....made me miss B'lore;-D

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  6. Welcome Back Nancy...

    Nice post..Keep writing yaar. Please don't make your breaks this much long...

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    1. U r joking;-D...I was away just for a month,I think it was the shortest brk taken...but...but...very happy u missed me;-D

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  8. oops!! happens Nancy.. But never experienced the Metro breaking down syndrome!...and Oh yeah..Welcome back! :)



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    1. Today's newspaper said that there was some glitch at the Karama Station, so I guess the metro itself didn't have any problem.
      And thanks...feels good to be back too;-D

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  9. aaha church bunk cheythu alle? No wonder! :D Saramilla pottey...atleast u have kids who are on their own...imagine if they were toddlers ..or babies in the same situ! Oh no!

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    1. Hmmmm....good point the kids were grumbling now & then but on the whole quite patient.
      @first point - hehe bunking inde shiksha kitti;-D

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  10. Actually, I had a bad time yesterday evening. But that's nothing compared to the experience described here. Ok, so I am not always the unluckiest person in the world! Now I feel better :)

    Destination Infinity

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    1. The kids & H were very impatient abt the whole thing but to tell u the truth I quite enjoyed it.....now can u imagine how boring my life must be;-P.

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    2. tho losing money was not at all funny;-(

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  11. Hey Nancy, Glad you are back. Infact, I was wondering whats keeping you from blogging till now - remember you said u will be back in September and half of Sept has already passed. missed u.

    Contemplation always helps you see.. just blog it whenever you do it... :-) and no BB's in the near future.. :-)

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    1. Did I say I'll be back in sept....no waaay I didn't...show me....show me where...I can't for the life of me remember saying this;-o.
      You knw I was planning to get back somewhere in oct-nov actually, just that this incident forced my hand...heee cdn't resist airing my dukh-bhari kahaani to all of u;-D

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    2. okay I went back & chked...I may just have said sept somewhere but I mentioned october also in the same breadth...so there;-D

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  12. Hey Nancy --u r back
    Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

    Thanks for checking on me.
    I dedicated my last post to you.
    http://myendeavours.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-just-married-please-excuse-content.html

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    1. Ur post was soooo funny and u wrote it really well. I laughed so much yesterday;-D. I'm so humbled at the dedication, thanks girl:-)).

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  13. See what happens when you bunk blogging and church?

    It was a collective evil spell so that you will return to our world...buahahahaha..

    Sigh!!! the lengths one has to go to get her friends back.....

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    1. Sigh!!!! With friends like these who needs enemies;-(((((

      p.s: Never saw tht coming, did u....buahahahahahaaaaa;-D

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  14. he he he, sad about what you had to go through, but glad you are back :-)

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    1. Hey, hey...it's cool, I myself categorised it under humour...it was just one of those 'law of averages caught with us' incidents.
      yup I'm glad too;-D!!!!

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  15. See how you are linking Friday 13th and No-Church going to this incident.

    Take care.

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    1. Huh atleast I was saying only these things the H was bringing Iran into it;-o

      ;-D

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  16. well this is how i see it.. something big had to happen to make u start blogging again :P

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    1. My question is, why cdn't something big like winning a lottery happen......I wd have restarted blogging even then right;-/

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  17. hmm..some bad karma?? ;-)..probably if you hadn't bunked the blog AND the church, things might have been better...sigh!!
    Atleast now don't abandon the blog...
    can I say, welcome back??!!!

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    1. Bad karma....and me???
      I'm such a nice person, happy-go-lucky, hate to hurt a cockroach even[I detest them mind u], did I mention nice person, brimming with positivity....bad karma...me?????

      Ofocourse u can say that, all wishes graciously accepted;-D

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  18. Hmmmmm....it seemed like the domino effect to me. Yay, my first comment after two years! Lets hope for a domino effect with this! :D

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    1. *thud*
      *picking myself up fr the floor*

      Wait till Agnes sees u...she's been asking & asking about u;-D

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  19. By the way, you will find me here: http://nodelusions.blogspot.in/

    Now I am off to meet Agnes! :D

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    1. Do let me knw how u got into her page...if u manage to ie;-P

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    2. Why? I just go to: www.agnespages.typepad.com
      Are you telling me that you cannot read her posts?

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    3. Yep...I enter thru her blogger link and I get a new page which gives an error message;-/
      But I just copy-pasted the link u gave me now[mind u its the same link I click on everytime] and I got thru;-o

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  20. very funny nance:-) good to see no skills have rusted here.

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  21. Hi Nance, Welcome back!! hugs ((()))

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