Business comes first

Summer comes with holidays… vacation time… funtime for kids… during summer time we usually have less patients at our hospital; so we try to make the most of it…. weekend tours are almost always there… this particular weekend we had gone to our in-laws place at dadar… time spent at in-laws place was always leisure time, with waking up at around 9 n then having wholesome breakfast lazing around… afternoons were at times dangerous cos that was usually the time whn wifey would want to go and shop… it was always ‘I wanna window shop only… I already have everything… so don’t worry m not gonna spend anything’ at the start; which would usually end with ‘good I came… I always wanted to buy tht particular dress’ with around 3-4 bags in the hand…. One such afternoon we decided to go ‘window shopping’ at dadar… the kids were busy playing downstairs n wernt too much interested in shopping… ofcourse summers the time for kids to play throughout the day without having to listen to parents… We reached Dadar n were looking around when I noticed a kid, around 10-12 yrs old selling certain items on the road. He was sitting on the footpath with his goods spread out on a cloth in front of him… while dear wifey was window shopping I went near him n asked him “kitne ka hai”… with a smile he replied “sir bahot accha rumal hai… 20rs packet”… he had around 10 packets with him… I asked him “school ko chutti hogi na??? toh khelne nahi gaya”…. To which his initial excitement reduced n replied “sir lena hai kya… timepass mat karo”… little taken aback by his strong reply I shook my head n said “nahi re… just puch raha tha”… he replied “school band… isliye yaha mai baiththa hun aur baba in dino mai barf-gole ka gaadi lagate hai”… my heart was overwhelmed with his innocent reply… I felt sad while all kids play n make the most of it of the summer holidays this kid has to sit here n help out his dad… suddenly I had an idea… I asked him “agar jyada packet liya toh kuch kam karega???” his eyes lit up with excitement “2 liya toh 2 rupay kam dena”…. I removed my wallet n said “thik hai chal... ye 180 rupees le aur mujhe sab packet dede…” the kid stared at me for sometime…. “sab??” he hurriedly recovered from his initial shock n for the fear that I may change my mind put all packets in a plastic bag n gave them to me…. I gave him the money n said “jaa ab sab bech diya na…. ab ghar jaake khel”…. he took the money n carefully put them in his pocket n smiled at me n ran away….. I felt nice at heart tht atleast he would get to enjoy atleast this afternoon…. I went near my wifey n handed her the packet…. She was like “have u gone crazy buying so many hankies???” I then narrated the whole incident to her… it much have taken around 5 minutes to do tht… wifey dear smiled n said “thts so sweet of u dearest hubby…. But would u like to turn around n take a look”…. As I turned around, my heart which was still running hard at the thoughts of the kid getting to enjoy his afternoon suddenly skipped a beat at what I saw… the kid was again sitting there with another set of packets of hankies spread in front of him…!!!!! He just looked at me… smiled…. N gave me a thumbsup sign….. 