Saree Sansar

I bought a Saree.

I bought it from Seematti in Kochi.

I thought buying clothes were always easy till I entered Seematti Saree Sansar and saw all those ladies buying sarees.The shop is aptly named because all the ladies out there forgot the rest of the world and were thinking sari sansar was in the middle of sarees of all those vivid , bright and light colors in that shop.

I Know ! I can see guys twitching in your chair. Nothing Doing! Buying a Saree is such a difficult process . It is not like a jeans or T shirt. It was Onam and I was meeting my mother after six months so I decided to do something Special and took her to Seematti.My God! Pandora's Box of consumer behavior thrown open by all ladies in the shop.

Generally when I go with my friends to purchase something for them or me it is such an easy process.

If < You Like>
Then < Try and Purchase>
Else < Pick Another and finish it soon and do better things in life>

Everything done in 15 minutes flat.

While the purchase of a Saree seems to be a difficult process or phenomenon.I cant describe how difficult the process is because it is so difficult even to describe . It may take as much effort and time as sacking a minister from Kerala cabinet.It took so much time but since I am a good, understanding son and all, I kept mum and did not make any burps or suggestions and generally did not ogle at any other gals of my age group in the Shop. I didn't even tell her how impatiently my brother and father was looking at their watches after few hours.

Three of us looked at each other fifteen times and had three tea and coffee before the first "worthy for consideration" saree arrived.

"What do you think about this stuff?. It is rose silk." - She asked me after holding the saree with so much pyaar and care.

" I think it is very good , you look good in all sarees. Where is the cash counter?"

"Shudduup , All men have very bad taste. How will you buy a Saree for your wife?"

" I will take you with me " I grin.

She smiles ."But the color is bad. This is rose "

I cant differentiate between rose silk and rose milk . SO I didnt say anything

Then Madurapattu came , then Lucknowi@$#@ came , then banarasi @!#@!# came and finally after the salesman almost indicated that almost all the stuff of which some 20000+ sarees in Seematti were made of has finished , mom liked a stuff which was again rosesilk.Once the stuff was finalised then it was the color.

After going through almost all the Permutations and Combinations of Red , Green and Blue Possible , suddenly a saree popped up and Pleasant surprise. Three men of her life sagely offered our agreement to the choice. It was a combined decision of the family as they say :). Three people were happy at last the fourth person made a decision. The saree was absolutely drop dead, mindblowingly and aesthetically gorgeous, which is obviously a cue for her to say “Do you have more patterns of the same color with handy works?”.

The salesman almost jumped down from the third floor of Seematti and committed suicide when he heard that question. But good for him and good for us there was no other saree available with same color and handyworks and we were done.

I think this is a tremendous achievement because we had visited one shop, saw less than 40+sarees, and actually bought one after spending some hours. There was an uncle near me giving us helpless guy glances that only a guy will understand with his wife and two daughters and he was still in the middle of purchasing a saree when we started and when we finished. God save that Uncle.

P S: Ladies , Please dont comment for this post :) till you read this post