the new year gift...

I was drafting my out of office mailbox reply, while office boy came and asked with hesitation 'Sir, are you busy'. 'Not much, just finishing things before leaving' I said. 'Sir, I need to check 1 thing on internet' he said. 'OK, check' I said. 'Sir, I need to search bicycle for kids in OLX, can you help me?' he said. 'OK' I said and started searching his query in OLX. Now monitor was showing some results of kids bicycle with rate, which ranged from Rs 500 to Rs 5000. 'Sir, can you open this link?' he said while pointing to Rs 500 bicycle. 'This seems pretty old, can you open this of 2000?' he said. 'Ohh, this is bigger than what I am looking for...I am looking this for my 4 years kid' he said. 'OK, this one looks good' I said while pointing out 1 cycle. 'How much it costs?' he said. 'It’s showing 1200 and it looks in good condition' I said while showing the different pictures of bicycle. 'Yes, I will note down the owner’s number' he said. I opened another page and it was showing bikes of higher prices. 'What is this sir, can you open this?' he said while pointing out to a bike of price 30K.'It runs through battery, It is too big, not for a kid of 4 year' I said. 'Yes, I am wondering why even kids need these kinds of bikes, which cost 30K' he said. 'Can you open the another site sir, Quikr ?' he said. I opened Quikr and did not find any good match, what he was looking for. 'Sir what is this, is this footwear, some special kind of footwear' he said while pointing out to one picture in Quikr. 'Yes, it’s footwear, it says kids branded footwear' I said. 'Hey, I think we should try for a new one, there are some online sites, where you can get kids bicycle' I said. I opened Snapdeal and it was showing Rs 2500 for a 4 years kid bicycle. 'Leave it sir, my kid is growing very fast...I don’t know how long he will use this bicycle, what is the use of buying this new bicycle' he said. 'Yes, you are right, maybe we should search more in OLX?' I said. 'You are getting late sir...I have noted down 1 phone number, I will check with that, otherwise we will check any other time...there is no hurry, my kid is not growing that much fast, he can wait for bicycle' he said with smile. 'OK, time to leave now...happy New Year' I said. 'Happy New Year sir' he said.

I was passing through office corridor and was laughing at the joke of social inequality, where someone is selling his kid’s used branded footwear and someone can wait for his kid’s New Year gift.