Ravi at Costco: A Bulk Buy Confession
Ravi went to Costco for one thing. One. Then the bulk packs started talking, the rupee conversions started running in his head, and forty pounds of rice later he needs a storage plan and a defence. This NRI Problems episode follows him through the whole confession in under a minute.
Full transcript
Costco is my favourite museum in America. You don’t buy things there, beta. You adopt them. Twenty-four rolls of paper towels! Priya says, ‘Ravi, where will we keep them?’ Arre, the garage!
Then I see it. A TV. Seventy-five inches. Only nine hundred dollars. And out it comes: ‘Eighty-five thousand rupees!’ Arjun whispers, ‘Dad, please. We live here. That man is staring.’ I tell him, beta, that man is also converting. Every Indian in this store is converting. We just pretend we are not.
Then Priya finds a wheel of cheese, bigger than Anaya. ‘Ravi, who will eat all this?’ Nobody! But per kilo, it is cheaper than air. So we buy it.
My tip: eat lunch at home before Costco. Nobody decides well next to five kilos of cheese. Tell me honestly: what does your dad convert first, the TV or the cheese? For more NRI money stories, visit IndiaPay dot com.
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