Humor: The Foamy Layers!
During that period
only the ‘essential’ shops/supermarkets were open for limited hours daily, and
even though they usually kept all kinds of shaving products due to the ‘non-essential’
classification the supply had stopped and they ran out of stock. I searched in
the online stores, but they too suffered from the same cause and effect, only
sticking to delivering essentials that too was not operational for over two
months. Call it my luck or misfortune, finally, I found one shaving gel that
was almost ten times costlier than my favorite gels. As in desperate times
desperate measures are required, I ordered for the same. I had some doubts from
the beginning, because the company mostly manufactures products for women, and in
my wife’s adequate stocks of cosmetics I found an abundance of their products.
In my hurry to
have a gentlemanly shave I ignored the instructions written on one side of the
long-shaped round plastic bottle. As usual, I pressed out a little gel on my shaving
brush and went ahead with the usual mechanisms. It was an absolute disaster,
and I had to complete the job with the thinnest possible foam lines across
those parts of my face that needed to be shaved. Then I read the instructions
or rather had to.
Next morning, I tried
the tutorial—pressed out a little creamy gel on my left palm and with my right one
applied it directly on the places of my face that needed to be shaved. That day
too it was not successful as the rich white creamy foam penetrated my nostrils more
than covering the parts of my face that needed to be shaved, and the creamy layers
so enriched my palms that I had to spend a lot of time at the wash basin. I thought
the product was not right for me and the huge amount of money I spent just was
wasted. Again, I found solace in the fact that many of our fellow-beings were
spending millions paying at least three or four times more than that of the MRP on some products
of the addictive kind that were made available through a crookedly diverted
supply chain; you can simply call it black marketing.
It was a normal
practice for many of our lucky fellow-beings with an assured monthly income to
watch a lot of television and movies that were available on the streaming platforms
thanks to the ‘connectivity’ being considered a ‘must essential’ for the emerging
phenomena of online classes and online office-work. In one of the movies I watched,
I suddenly beheld the hero having a casual shave while delivering the dialogues
and using a similar gel that I purchased out of compulsion. I was stunned by
the ease with which he was applying the gel and spreading the rich creamy foam across
the parts of his face that needed to be shaved. That enthused me tremendously,
and that also explained why the product was so costly.
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