Buying Goods

We lift gold twice a week, and for six years I rang the pandit every single time, and somewhere around the fourth year I could hear him getting tired of me. Now the morning list is on the same screen as the rates, with the days to refuse kept separate, and he and I are on better terms than we were.

The Diwali lot is twenty lakh of cloth bought in one go. My father never bought it on a guess and I am not going to be the first one in this line who did.

My brother wanted to know why the godown purchase had been held back four days when the rate was moving against us. The reason was printed on the page, and those four days cost us eleven hundred rupees, which is what I told him, and he worked the rest out himself.

A pump set is a thing you buy once and then live with for seven years. So I treated it the way I treat a sowing day and not the way I treat a bag of urea. Same logic, smaller amount, and when I asked the shopkeeper to hold it two days he thought I was haggling.