Hair Raising Story

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It was a very comfortable ride to college last Thursday. It’s very rare to find an empty train to Churchgate in the peak rush hours. Before the scheduled departure, I managed to pick up a newspaper from a local vendor on the same platform.

After a long time I had managed to get a window seat. As I sat down to read the newspaper, a pamphlet about A4 size dropped on the floor. I picked it up and decided to put it away, when some bold text on the paper “DHAMAKA OFFER”, caught my eye. I kept the newspaper aside and started reading the pamphlet.

The pamphlet advertised an ‘A/C Salon’ that had come out with this “DHAMAKA OFFER” to grab customers. To emphasize this point, it had fireworks printed on its margins. Right in the centre, there was a sketch of a ‘sutli bomb’. It boasted of famous international brands of cosmetics and other products such as ‘Garner’ and ‘Lorel’.

The best part of the pamphlet was these lines:

“Tired of your hair style?”

“Well, try our colour or highlights them & your face (!) Both will shine!”

“You will get bleach for FREE! Imagine!”

“The new hair & beauty salon for ‘ments’ – you care for your hair, for your looks, for your face!”

Obviously, it was a ‘beauty salon’ for gents (or men; not a remix). But what was not so obvious was a sketch of a female next to this line.

“What are you waiting there? Call now before very late!”

Very rarely rides in a local train to college are this entertaining. (Okay, I know I have a very bad sense of humour – not my fault – it has happened to me since I took up medicine.)

(Unfortunately, the one making the pamphlet is solely responsible for all the mistakes: grammatical, factual or otherwise)