Jingle Bells
During the festive season, I am mockingly decorated by the local municipal authorities with tinsel, baubles and mistletoe under which I must kiss my customers’ feet. Here you see two of my esteemed regular customers – Ms Mukta madam and her magnificent husband, master Simon sir – merrily mocking me on Boxing Day. Ms Mukta is asking me when I plan on taking down my Xmas decorations, and jovially enquires as to exactly how I plan to do so, given that I am permanently immured up to my neck in concrete wall? Will Santa’s little elves be assisting me, perchance? I thank Ms Mukta madam for her kind questions and humbly inform her that I will indeed require assistance in removing my decorations, in all likelihood from the same municipal authorities that put them up, begging her female pardon and understanding madam? She laughs out loud at me and then, as I continue to stare most humbly at her feet, goes on to enquire whether my decorative bells tinkle whenever I lower my lips to my cust...