Shopping and more shopping!!

I went to Mumbai last weekend to spend some extra time with my sweetheart before he left for his trip to the UK. However, I ended up spending more time with my first love “SHOPPING”!!! Mumbai is THE place to go to shop for shoes and clothing!!! I bought 10 pairs of shoes and 11 outfits and spent a total of 3000 rs only! It was my cheapest shopping trip by far and also the best.

Perhaps it would be better if I gave some background information before I started, for you guys to be able to completely empathise with my story. The ONLY people I shop with are my sister Sheila who cannot stand shopping for more than 5 minutes and Gaurav who will simply snicker at the sound of “pumps” and “wedges”:D I love them both a lot but this severe disability of theirs has resulted in me looking elsewhere for my aptly called “SOLEMATE”( I gotta give credit to my friend Samira who came up with that word! )

Many people would vehemently agree with me when I say that I am a tad bit  irritating while shopping. Which is why the moment I mentioned my plans,  people started making excuses left, right and center leaving me to shop all on my own!! I knew it was bound to happen and so I head to my favorite spot “Hill Road” in Bandra with my pockets full of cash, a super grin on my face all prepared to do some serious shopping! As luck would have it, I met my “SOLEMATE” almost immeadietly.

She was standing next to me at my favorite shoe shop ( stall/ shack  whatever ) and giggled when she heard me tell the shop owner my shoe size and try to explain to him in hindi that I was prepared to buy his whole shop if he found atleast one pair that would fit my enormously large feet. I soon forgave her audacity when she admitted that she too had been blessed with feet the size of Asia and was totally blown away when she started suggesting that I try on shoes that were completely my style. The pessimist in me refused to beleive that she was the one, and so I decided to test our shoe-compatibilty. I pointed to all that shoes that I would never wear with a hopeful smile, tricking her into beleving that I liked them, and she rubbished them with a mere wave of her hand! ( Ok I am so completely adding masala to my story, but isn’t this fun!! )

I soon found out that we had many things in common. We were of the same age, and we both had boyfriends who disappeared at the very mention of shoe shopping! Sadly I do not have any pictures of us shopping together, but ( at the cost of sounding very cheesy ) I remember every shoe we picked together!

We didn’t have much time to get to know each other better, but we did exchange numbers and I also found her on facebook. Needless to say, it was the most fun I had that day, and I didn’t even realise that 3 hours had passed. Gaurav got a bit jealous after listening to my story and accompanied me clothes shopping the next day. Jealousy is a tool I must use more often If only it worked on Sheila!

Apart from shopping, I had a great time in Mumbai, but thats for another post!