Kanpur: Moving on the road from Nai Chungi to the Lal Bangla of the Jajmau area, there wasn't much crowd of the usual shoppers. It used to be abundantly intensed in the evening hours but the scene on Wednesday was different.
Not much traffic either as the vehicles were passing effortlessly on the clear road.
Was it due to rainy days? One responded that it was not so. Since the people did not have adequate money with them, they are avoiding going to the market.
When their pockets are empty so the shops look not to be overcrowded.
But when he was told looking at a young lad buying black coloured mobile cover at an expensive rate of one hundred rupees, he said it did not mean that the boy was happy by spending all the amount in his pocket.
The boy quickly told he tried hard to persuade the seller to reduce the rate.
Finding him in no condition to shift the boy had to surrender the whole amount of the money he had kept in his brown jean's pocket.
Shopkeepers did accept that they were facing a lesser presence of customers in their shops. However, they have no way out rather than waiting for the customers.
Selling vegetables on a cart the middle-aged soft-voiced seller did not reduce the price of ladyfinger but readied to decrease the price of another vegetable. He began telling of the rate of the wholesale price. The customer did not buy for he lacked more money in his pocket.
The condition of one customer was worth seeing when the hind wheel of the scooty just after repairing the puncture developed the same fault again.
By chance, he had driven his scooty not so long so he returned at the repairing shop. The youth, who attended the puncture earlier, brought another strip of the readymade solution to close the puncture.
The second bandage of the punctured tyre was fine as the air was not coming out this time. Otherwise, the elder owner of the repairing shop cautioned if the puncture once more is spotted there would be needed a change of the tyre. "Our fault is nothing in making the puncture", he cleared.
