A discount for big shots³³

In Puerto la Cruz we went to buy a chair. We saw a chair like the one I have in New York, but I didn’t like the price. I wanted to bargain the price down, but the lady in the store wouldn’t bargain, so we went to another store. There I liked a chair which was from Italy.

Shubhra said to the saleslady, “Can you lower the price?” Then Shubhra said, “This morning we were with President Lusinchi in Caracas.”

The lady immediately lowered the price. She told us that when Saraswati and Savyasachi had been in another store they showed a pamphlet of me with some big shots. She happened to have been in that other store at that time. So she lowered the price even lower than Shubhra asked because I was a big shot.