The other day I and  my family went  on one of those weekend outings. We were roaming around inside UB city, just window shopping. Out of sheer curiousity, I stumbled into the Louis Vuitton Store over there. Mind you, I had no intention, whatsoever, of buying anything! But once inside, I was somehow overpowered by the ambience of this luxury brand. Anything I picked to examine…cost anywhere between 20k to 200k. And I admit, they weren’t so much of an eye candy either. Bags, shoes, purses, totes, belts,etc, etc….on every product , there was a monogram of LV engraved. I picked up a pair of light brown pumps that I particularly liked, the price tag on which said it cost about Rs.38,000!!!! My eyes almost popped out! I wistfully put it back. On second thoughts, I picked it up again, just to make sure that the shoes didn’t have a gold lining that made them cost so much! Not really! They were made of suede, which could have been of the highest quality. In anycase, it didn’t matter! I wasn’t going to shell out so much money for a pair of shoes!

And then, did I walk out? Oh no! You know me. I wouldn’t exit until I had seen every item inside-out!

I was thinking,…. ok, forget about shoes. Let me buy a small purse or some kind of accessory just to show-off the LV monogram .Wandering toward the hand purses section, I picked up the smallest of them all. Forget about money, but hardly a few coins could fit into that purse and still, it cost about Rs.6000!!! I was like….what the…???? All this for the LV monogram??!! Ok, no thanks!

By now, I was feeling dizzy! I just scampered out of there! This is not for me! May be for movie stars, rock stars, etc …but definitely NOT FOR ME!

 

 

P.S: The only thing I appreciated about the place is the patience of the sales people. They were constantly smiling and giving directions happily although they perfectly knew that 99.999999% walking into that store wouldn’t be buying anything at all