Just another day at the office for our heroine Aarthi-an ordinary girl who was busy checking what her friends were up to on facebook. Suddenly she sensed her boss getting agitated in his cabin.She carefully looked in his direction and noticed he was observing everybody. He was getting ready to hunt, or rather dump some of his work on them. In a flash she shut her computer, took her purse and dashed out of the office. She was clever enough not to turn when she thought she heard her name being called. She galloped away like a deer on seeing a lion.Feeling good about herself she started to walk towards the bus stand. Her phone started ringing- it was a reminder! She panicked for a moment that she had forgotten friend’s birthday, saw the screen and she panicked even more. It was about a magician who possessed a rare skill. There are many who claim to practice this witchcraft but most of them are hokum. She had discovered him in a shady galli in one of markets. For some it might have been just another occupation but she knew the magic, he could create an illusion that would make her look slim, in other words he was a great tailor.This was the day she was getting her dress back. She hurried to catch a bus to take her to other part of the town. She got a bus right away and also a seat. She thought it must be her lucky day. After half an hour and having just moved through half a kilometer she decided that she has to get a faster means of transportation. She got down and searched for the three wheeled mystical object which had become digital recently, and so had the rates now drivers only asked in terms of hundreds. She got one and he agreed to come to her destination right away. She felt as though she had drunk a bottle of liquid luck.
This was the fourth time she was going to this tailor. First time, he’d told her his sad life story and was very busy so couldn’t finish the work. The second was he got married so had to stitch blouses for his entire wedding party and fell behind. The third and most adventurous was they played a game of treasure hunt trying to find her material amongst the heaps of cloth. She had yelled at him the third time and warned him that if he hadn’t got it ready she wanted refund on the advance and she was never gonna come to him again. He saw right though her lie, but pretended like he cared.After a bumpy journey and having paid her dues to the "auto"crat ,she prayed to god that it would end today. She went to his shop and he smiled which was a good sign ,he made her sit and told her the dress was ready and was getting pressed and it would arrive soon ,with baited breath she waited as a puny human came down from a ladder kept in the corner most part of the room with her dress .She saw it and decided she would try it so she went to the trial room/cupboard and put it on. Alas he had stitched a size too big, she came out fuming and yelled at the lousy fitting he said he had stitched it according to her measurements .That’s when it struck her all this running around had made her thinner and she asked him to refit it and then came the words that she dreaded the most out of the tailor’s mouth ,”will be done in a week madam!”
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Lakshmi
This was the fourth time she was going to this tailor. First time, he’d told her his sad life story and was very busy so couldn’t finish the work. The second was he got married so had to stitch blouses for his entire wedding party and fell behind. The third and most adventurous was they played a game of treasure hunt trying to find her material amongst the heaps of cloth. She had yelled at him the third time and warned him that if he hadn’t got it ready she wanted refund on the advance and she was never gonna come to him again. He saw right though her lie, but pretended like he cared.After a bumpy journey and having paid her dues to the "auto"crat ,she prayed to god that it would end today. She went to his shop and he smiled which was a good sign ,he made her sit and told her the dress was ready and was getting pressed and it would arrive soon ,with baited breath she waited as a puny human came down from a ladder kept in the corner most part of the room with her dress .She saw it and decided she would try it so she went to the trial room/cupboard and put it on. Alas he had stitched a size too big, she came out fuming and yelled at the lousy fitting he said he had stitched it according to her measurements .That’s when it struck her all this running around had made her thinner and she asked him to refit it and then came the words that she dreaded the most out of the tailor’s mouth ,”will be done in a week madam!”
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Lakshmi
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