The long short

The summer has set in and its blisteringly warm in Calcutta, so what does one do at such a time? Come out with his "Summer collection 2012",unfortunately I did not have much options when it came to attire at home, no good shorts or tracks to wear in the pathetic weather that has hit the city, close  to 40 degrees Celsius , its been like this for almost a month now, no respite it seems and the lowest temperature of 29 degrees is not much a fact to jump about.

So here I am chucking out a ton of my old clothes because some of them are winter wear and some are in pathetic condition , converting the ones in poor condition to cloths being used to clean up the house, I open and clear my wardrobe and what do I find?

I have no shorts at all, not boxers but shorts which I can wear at home, this is because I finally did chuck out the shorts I used to wear around 10 years back when I was playing football in the sand dunes of Dubai, in those days the shorts would reach my knees, now the same shorts barely cover my balls. So off they went and so did I to talk to my parents, 

"I need new shorts"

"Not a problem" says my dad, he has a few friends in the complex in the whole clothing business and surely enough I get a huge selection of shorts delivered to my place a couple of days later.

Trying them on one at a time, typical parents commenting on what looks good and not, I finally like a pair of shorts which are again till my knees and they are of decent quality that I can wear the same when I do go outside to places like McDonalds or KFC.

When I tell my parents that I want more of the same in the same XL size, its like the earth has shattered and 2012 is upon us, ok well it is upon us but that is not the point, my parents can't seem to get the idea as to why I would want shorts till my knees, those are not shorts, they are quite large for you and well they are very baggy and loose fitting.

What they don't understand is that this is my master plan for saving money, you see, I did get around 4 pair of shorts of the size I wanted now the good part is that these shorts will serve me a lifetime, well not a lifetime but based on the fact above that a pair of shorts lasted for a good 10 years with rough wear and a whole lotta football matches in tough conditions, these new shorts will last longer since I don't play football anymore, retired from the game since I reached the high points of doing Cruyff turns on the tough hard concrete covered rooftops of Chintoo's house in Mansartala lane, back to the point, these are going to last me long and I wont have to buy a new pair in a long time, this is how we save money.