A short story about a greedy shopkeeper.

                                                        Greedy Cannot Survuve

It was 7:00 in the morning and i was constantly fiddling with my phone waiting anxiously to receive a phone call until at 7:30 it finally rang and to my joy my heart gave me a large beat and i took up my call. It was my friend Ben whose call i was awaiting to plan a trip with my friends after a long one year gap. Quickly the plan was set to go to a nearby place at 10:00 am.We hurriedly messaged our other friends too. I hurriedly took my towel and went in for a quick bath. However a shampoo was a must for me almost everyday as without it i felt irritated with  my head. 

It was 9:45am and iwas all ready with neatly pressed clothes on and hair all fixed waiting fot he bus to come.

And it was same one of those day where all the buses in the world will come at your door step and the bus you want to catch was no where in the scene to watch. Finally after about half an hour my bus finally came and sat on it. My other friends also whom i had messaged earlier Sumo, Ben, Saj also came in from their respective stops and unlike other days the bus ride was really joyful as we had a lot to talk about after all we were meeting after..!

Finally at 11 we rached our destination and it was all crowdy with office goers, vedors, street urchins  as it usually was. We started roaming in the market seeing all the items that were on sale. Ben wanted to buy a bag which had a special pouch for his laptop to be put into. We went into a number of shops but they were asking for around 500 bugs which was out of Ben’s budget.

We found a shop which kind of crowdy and had a lot of stuffs. It was a pretty shop located centrally. The shopkeeper was a kind of aggressive man. We went into shop and Ben asked for the his servant showed  us a number of bags which we had already seen and the servant was kind  enough to show us all the pieces in different colours. We just went through all the pouches by the time the shopkeeper arrived. So finally we asked for the price and to our surprise he told us a staggering 1800 bugs for the same stuff that we had asked in other stores. We just felt terrible. Then as usual he started explaining why his product was the best but we simply walked out of the shop but he never left us. He quickly followed us to of the shop and asked us what we were ready to give. We just told him that there was a lot of difference between what he told and what what we imagine. He in a high tone asked us to quote our price. But we told him that there was no in quoting as it had a huge difference and we were never ever satisfied with the material. But he simply grabbed my hand in an orderly manner and asked me to tell my price again. I finally told him our price range of 350-450 bugs. He simply let my hand loose and had a cruel stare at me as if i tried to stab him to death and made fun cruelly about our valid price quote which he greedily thought invalid.

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