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To every person who has heart that hurts too soon, please breathe! This article is written with no intention to shoot daggers at your status but to see the funny side of it and relate to it. To laugh and enjoy and be proud of being a middle-class badge wearer. Often people society looks down on those who have no money to burn in bright daylight. So what? Do you have any clue how famous they are?
Memes, stand-up comedy, posts on websites, hit Hindi tv shows like Sarabhai v/s Sarabhai, blogs have done so many pieces on this part of the society. Instead of feeling offended, show off! Seriously. So, that being said, let's begin with a list of things every middle-class person either says, thinks or goes through.
"Why are you wasting electricity when you can sit in the garden?"
"But it's night"
*Disapproving nod*
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"Ek butter paneer, ek rice, ek chicken lollypop for the kids and lime soda. Gulaab jamun mat bhoolna"
"You got it for 500? Thoda bargain karti toh 350 mein mil jata"
People: "Plastic bag ka bhandaar hai uske ghar pe".
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When they 'might' fit you later and totally qualify for pocha kapada I still see my mom using one of my old dresses torn into not two but four pieces.
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From toothpaste to cream, no tube is empty until mom declares it cannot be squeezed any more. The thought behind this is - do not give up. There is so much more, cut one end and you will see. All you need is an opening and a little squeezing. No pun intended.
With the ticket rates like those, I could save up and buy another house in the Maldives!
Definitely, the quality won't be top class, but it doesn't hurt to go look.
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Doesn't seem like a big deal to many. But the tax rates always hit them like a wrecking ball. There was a time when a KFC chicken bucket of 199 totaled up to 200.
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The remote is wrapped in plastic. When that plastic is stained, it is wrapped with plastic again!
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"Aha, so we have new plates which will return to the cabinet once they leave"
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Happens. Remembering mom telling you to be careful when pulling the tape off?
Stands true to what goes around comes around.
You see that fancy cookie box? That expensive chocolate box my aunty brought me five years ago? Yeah, we use it for all the wool and rolls of thread.
Reasons one: We get that free 'dabba'
Reason two : Saving the bones for the dog.
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