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My wife looked at me askance when I got busy dumping a decades-old umbrella with many a see-through hole and a half-broken walking stick into a gunny bag mementos of my kasi yathirai way back in 1972! She was not aware that the reason for this sudden provocation was that I had just read Geeta Padmanabhan's interesting article, The stock-up syndrome (MetroPlus, April 26).
Other items to follow were a pile of newspapers which carried my SSLC, Inter, Degree results during 1950s, articles on my home town Nilgiris, articles on health... And last but not the least, a plastic bag containing at least half a dozen spectacles nurtured from the day of my first eye test in 1956 and a carton full of old and rusted nails, screws, and nuts.
Thanks to Geeta Padmanabhan for the wake-up call. I am still going round my house kitchen and store room reserved for the final assault when my wife is not around!
K. Shanker
HMT Layout
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