The Nameless In You

How to identify it?

- Janani Iyer

Last month I was shopping with my family for my brother's wedding. Wedding shopping - you know how they are… shopping for days from morning to evening! On one such day at a popular sari shop, I was sent to exchange the token for the bags we had deposited earlier at the counter. There was an unruly clutter at the counter as 3 men were edging with each other to get theirs done first. I decided not to join and stood behind them and waited for my turn to be serviced. Soon, a lady approached, went closer to the counter; on seeing me waiting to be serviced, she smiled, acknowledged and stood behind me. Then, a respectable gentleman came, saw us both standing. “Too much people everywhere… even to collect our own bags we have to stand in a queue” – he grumbled but stood behind the lady in the queue. When I collected my bags a few minutes later, I noticed that a nice little queue of 8 people was formed. I went over to my family and told them, 'See! I helped in making an orderly queue here!' But they were b