Super Deals

It was Thanksgiving time again!!
Living next to OfficeMax during this crazy season meant...
1> Rohan would be amongst the first ones to enter when OfficeMax opened for their Thanksgiving Sale
2> He would buy a laptop , his third for each thanksgiving season he had lived next to OfficeMax.

His logic was simple.
The configuration was much better than the earlier 'cheap' laptop he bought and the price was much lesser.

(He also had a set of 13 silver bottle openers at a 60% discount from the 2001 Thanksgiving Sale.None of which he had ever used. Half of which he wasn't sure how they actually opened a bottle.The other half : Rohan didnt have the bottles which the opener supposedly opened)

Our house maid wanted me to get a cloth-hanger utility which would be used to hang up wet clothes after they come out of our washing machine. After failing to do so on reasons of 'I have no clue what you are talking about' , she said,
"Our neighbours have it and they go it from USA."

On further investigation, This 'cloth-hanger' was also a snake catcher which my visionary neighbour had got for 25$ since it was for 80% discount.

Somehow I never am close to any ordinary deals...forget the superlative kind.
I am thankful to Steve Jobs for not having announced a price cut in the Ipod I got last September.

Yesterday morning , I got this urgent call from Sandeep.

"Hey, Quick...get todays Economic Times and check out the second last page"

As I was still trying to make the difference between Sando's call and the dream which he had interrupted in the wee hours of the morning , I took note of the urgency in his tone , gathered spare change from 7 drawers and just set off to get Economic Times.

'Did his company go public?' - He doesn't have a company dude !!

'Did he win some National Badminton Tournament?' - Hmmm...but then why only the Economic Times?

'Super Deals' - Yaaa...this must be it.Nike's for 999.99 only.

I bought the ET and opened the second last page.
It was a computer vendor and he wasn't selling laptops at cheap prices.

I called up Sandeep.

'Hey , What am I supposed to look at ? '

'Saw it?'

'Yup'

'So?'...Sando was surprised.

'So?????' (What was I missing here?)

'Isn't that Tushar in the advertisement?'

I looked at the advertisement and then at the watch.

'NO , IT IS NOT TUSHAR'

'silence...longer silence...Well...errr...Ithought...hmmm...Did I wake you up? click '

Meanwhile ,The newspaper guy was watching the fiasco.
He smiled. It suggested,'Sorry dude ,I cant give you the money'.
Then he made me glance at the other guy standing on the opposite side.

Tushar was shouting , 'You @$# , it is not me!!'

We left for our respective homes after agreeing to break Sandeep's jaw and never to bring up this story again.

Talking about Super Deals (once again we have forgotten the main topic) :

Somebody told me...
There is GOD and then there is Mark Knopfler :
Andheri Complex on March 5 at 7:30 pm

P.S. - I have refrained from commenting on the special relationship between the fairer sex and Super Deals. You may assume the sex of the Super Deal victims in the above blog at your own risk.