The short two metres³⁶

This is a story about Calcutta deception. I went to a store to buy cloth to be made into trousers. I selected four or five materials and said, “Please give me two metres of each one.”

Then I went browsing in the store. When I was ready to pay, I asked again if they had cut off two metres and they said that they had.

The following day when I took the material to a tailor in Pondicherry, he said, “How can I make trousers for you? This material is not even one metre 75 centimetres.”

From:Sri Chinmoy,I love shopping, part 3, Agni Press, 1994
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