I had to go to my office at 20.30 hours.and I was entering my place after spending two hours at the local market at 21.00 hours.Suddenly,my friends daughter,who stays with me and works as a dietetic at a local hospital entered the drawing room to announce,"But I needed a white apron urgently.I have to wear it to my office tomorrow." It was late in the evening and I had to leave for my office in half an hour.Still,we decided to go to market to search for it.we were in a hurry and so we parked our car at the nearest possible place in the service lane.We asked at at least six places.None replied in affirmative,however one person gave a vague idea about how we may find at the bigger market located bit further.We rushed towards our car to hurry to that place.But we were perplexed at the sight in the parking.In just fifteen minutes,the whole place was choc-a-bloc and there was hardly any room for maneuvering the car out of the place.On the top of that i had started driving this new car of mine just recently.So,it was an uphill task for me to drive it out of the jam.However,after lot of patient driving stunts,we were on the main road,speeding towards the next market.It was getting late,weather was chilly and windy,shops were lowering their shutters.we rushed from shop to shop to find about the correct shop.We thought that now it was impossible.But we didn't lose heart.Then someone told that there is a school uniform shop behind this market,which may keep the apron we were looking for.The way he directed us towards the place,it seemed as if it was near by.So we darted in that direction.But there was no such shop in the backside,however fey vegetable shops were located there.in the background,there were two hoardings-one about a fish shop & another about the school uniform shop.We asked the people out there for the uniform shop.They pointed confidently to go towards the rear basement shops.We ran almost to make to the shop on time,but were disappointed to see that instead of the uniform shop,we had been directed to the fish shop.Our search began once again.We went to the hoarding and tried to move in the direction shown there on foot.However there were no sign of any such shop in that direction.The night was getting darker,weather worse,time very late and car was very far.We had lost all hopes by now and thought of returning.but we thought of giving one last try.We stopped a rickshaw and told him to take to the shop.But he didn't know about it.We still went in that direction and were trying to figure out about the shop on our won,when we saw the billboard bearing the name of the shop.It was about to close ,when we entered the shop.But finally...yes finally, he took out the "white apron" from the shelf,which we were searching for so desperately.On my return,i was just wondering,"What if we had returned home without giving this last try?"
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