Kinder Joy, Blinkit & Punekars!

Happy 3rd Blogiversary (Blog Anniversary) to all my readers. It has been an adventurous journey of writing for me and hopefully you enjoyed it too! Thank you for being a part of this journey for 3 years. A writer is incomplete without the readers, and thus you are an integral part of this blog. It still feels like it was just yesterday that I wrote my first blog, with no plan about the next one. Every month magically the stories came my way and so I say

‘I don’t fetch stories, stories fetch me’.

After spending the most chaotic weekend with my cousins, it was almost 3 in the morning and 8 of us who were sleeping in the drawing room decided whoever sleeps first will treat the rest of us with a kinder joy. We all were extremely sleepy, so much so that we would have all slept at once if there was no bet, but now that it was, we were forcing our eyes not to close, then at one point we all came down to a consensus that let us drop the bet and sleep peacefully. The lights were put off, alarms were set and everyone took their blankets. A few minutes later lights were put on and Kanchan was caught sleeping, the rest of us woke up and took her picture for evidence, meanwhile she woke up too and everyone said that it was a prank and that she fell for it. But honestly even I thought the consensus was for real and was almost about to sleep when the lights  were switched on.

The next day we all kept pestering her for Kinder Joy. So to end the best get together on a sweet note I ordered 10 kinder joys (that was the limit) from Blinkit because if not for her, I would have definitely fallen for the prank myself. Now this is where the plot twist begins. So while having my lunch at her home I placed the order, it showed 5 min and then within 5 minutes it was delivered. I asked her sister Mansi to get the parcel, she went down and came up saying there is no one downstairs, and on the app it was showing delivered, so I was worried. I called the delivery guy, he said he had put the parcel in the carry bag as instructed by some lady, but in reality none of us had instructed anyone, but Mansi said they also have a carry bag hanging from their balcony. So she pulled the bag up and checked it, but our parcel was not in the bag. I called the delivery guy and asked him where did he deliver our parcel to which he said in ‘plot number 32’ but we had ordered from plot number 36. So I asked him to get the parcel from plot 32 and deliver it to the correct address.

Meanwhile my lunch was done and we (I, Kanchan and Abhiraj) set out in the colony to search ‘plot number 32’. Some houses had addresses written on them while some did not. When I looked around in their colony I saw many carry bags hanging from the balconies, which means our parcel was definitely in one of them. So the first house we thought was plot no. 32,  was her friend’s. So she called out her friend, but her mother came out. We asked her about the parcel, to which she said she did not receive any and that her plot no. was not 32, but she directed us to where it would be. It is not easy to find one plot among 62 of them. The next house that we thought would be 32, had a bell but due to paint work it had got stiff, so Abhiraj called out randomly ‘Kaku’ and an uncle appeared in the window. He seemed like the typical Punekar who would not like to be disturbed at 3 in the afternoon, yet he answered our questions with all the patience he had and did not scold us. Next we rang the bell of the house which was plot 32 and also had a balcony and an old lady came out after 5 minutes, surprisingly she was too dressed to be at home, maybe those 5 minutes were for that, but she was too kind too. She had also not received the parcel, but suggested that we ask her tenants living on the first floor.

Then we came on the first floor, the door of the house was ajar and we could hear someone washing hands. We knocked on the door, but there was no reply, we could still hear someone washing hands, we knocked the door again and a relatively young man (with fear already lingering on his face) came out, we asked him about the parcel and said he had not received any and that he had not received any parcel since morning, I don’t know what was so frightening about the three of us that he looked so afraid, we were not from C.I.D, but maybe he was too innocent. We then came out in despair and I called the Blinkit guy again, he said he was close to the society. Then the first Aunty was still standing outside her house and very kindly enquired if we got our parcel, and we sadly said ‘no’. Then we saw the Blinkit guy coming, and he took a turn into the aisle which we had skipped because it had houses starting from plot no.40 and this guy had delivered our parcel in plot no.42 and not 32!

This house also had a carrybag hanging from the window and the lady too who had asked him to put the parcel in the carrybag, the Blinkit guy shouted at the lady for receiving the parcel that was not hers and handed it over to me. We came back and distributed the kinder joy, our little nieces were the happiest but we cousins knew what a struggle it was to get hold of this kinder joy, it was more of a kinder sorrow than joy! But this incident broke some of my stereotypes about Punekars, that not all of them sleep during the day, even if they do, they do not yell at you if you spoil their sleep for a mere chocolate, and that they are kind and concerned too! 

Such situations create a lot of anxiety and panic at the moment. After every ‘no’ my heart sank a bit thinking about the loss of money, chocolate and of course joy (which we could have experienced if not for this mishap). But later on when I told this story of acquiring the kinder joy by waking up Punekars in the afternoon, everyone had a great laugh, but only we (cousins) knew what we went through. Maybe every funny anecdote in life comes after a stressful mishap. So next time around if you are stuck in a stressful mishap just remember that life is about to give you an anecdote on which generations to come will have a great laugh!

Ps: Also on this 3rd Blog Anniversary, do let me know your favourite blog in the comment section from all the blogs published so far.

Happy Reading,

-सिddhi Bhosale.

Links to all the Blogs:

1. The Uber Paaji and the Grandmama's Aaji! : https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-uber-paaji-and-grandmamas-aaji.html

2. RRR (Rainy Rickshaw Ride)☔🌂🌧️: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2022/07/rrr-rainy-rickshaw-ride.html

3. INDIAN : https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2022/08/indian.html

4. Bappa Morya!: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2022/09/bappa-morya.html

5. Hema Chaha and Gagga Vada!: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2022/10/hema-chaha-and-gagga-vada_21.html

6. Udaipur: The city where silence is heard.: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2022/11/udaipur-city-where-silence-is-heard.html

7. The little gift box🎁!: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-little-gift-box.html

8. Monday's Mistake!: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2023/01/mondays-mistake.html

9. Golden Birthday, Golden Memories.: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2023/02/golden-birthday-golden-memories.html

10. Fire,Paper planes and Maharaj!: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2023/03/firepaper-planes-and-maharaj.html

11. 4 Year's of Engineering in 4 Paragraphs!:https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2023/04/4-years-of-engineering-in-4-paragraphs.html

12. One Last Time....: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2023/05/one-last-time.html

13. Sahii Re Sahii!!: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2023/06/sahii-re-sahii.html

14. The Fourth Seat!: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-fourth-seat.html

15. Monday Blues!: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2023/08/monday-blues.html

16. Lalbagh Cha Raja!: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2023/09/lalbagh-cha-raja.html

17. Purani Jeans to formals!: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2023/10/purani-jeans-to-my-formals.html

18. Patil Baba!: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2023/11/patil-baba.html

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21. Return Gift!: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2024/02/return-gift.html

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23. Mumbai Diaries (Part 1): https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2024/04/mumbai-diaries-part-1.html

24. Graduation Day!!: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2024/05/graduation-day.html

25. And miles to go before…….(Silver Jubilee Blog!): https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2024/06/and-miles-to-go-beforesilver-jubilee.html

26. T20 WC'24!: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2024/07/t20-wc24.html

27. It Ends with US!: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2024/08/it-ends-with-us.html

28. The Kite Runner!: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-kite-runner.html

29. Buffet!: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2024/10/buffet.html

30. My kind of Diwali Pahat!🎇: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2024/11/my-kind-of-diwali-pahat.html

31. An Evening to Remember!💫: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2024/12/an-evening-to-remember.html

32. Dear Pappa....: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2025/01/dear-pappa.html

33. Virtues Nursery!: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2025/02/virtues-nursery.html

34. In the Moment!: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2025/03/in-moment.html

35. The Teacup Talks!⛾⛾: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-teacup-talks.html

36. Summer Holidays in Gwalior!: https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2025/05/summer-holidays-in-gwalior.html