PVR Cinemans in the Sahara Ganj Mall at Lucknow has a serious serious problem. You cannot carry bags inside. Nor do they have any arrangement for keeping bags at any place in the mall, even outside the multiplex. I can't think of a more stupid way a multiplex can screw its sales, inspite of being located in the busiest shopping mall of a big city like Lucknow. The irony with this PVR is, that though it wants to attract the mall goers by offering them a movie experience along with shopping, nobody who does any shopping in the mall can watch a movie there, coz he won't be allowed to go inside with whatever he has purchased and he won't be allowed to keep anything anywhere in the mall either. Women are sometimes allowed to go inside with their handbags. I guess the definition of handbag is quite flexible, and who can argue with women about their bags! Men are not allowed to keep handbags. Men have pockets. Men have smaller things to keep. Men have fewer things to keep.
Me and my friend got pissed off last night when we were told we couldn't watch a movie there coz we had a small bag with us, which would have qualified as a handbag if my friend were a woman, and unfortunately, he was not. The bag had 2 cameras, and this was even more scary for the security guards at the entrance of PVR. They said taking a bag inside was out of question. And taking that with cameras even worse. Isn't that weird? X is not allowed. Y is more not allowed!
I got frustrated after trying to negotiate with the guards for some time, and gave up. Then went to the food court there and enjoyed my favorite Cheeze-Burst Pizza at 20% IIM discount at Dominos! I am really addicted to this Cheeze-Burst thing. I never liked pizza until I came to know you can do Cheeze-Burst and make it one of the tastist things on earth. I eat so much of it these days that Dominos people take my order with reluctance, mainly when I tell them I am IIM and ask them to give me the 20% discount that they offer to the others of my kind in Lucknow.
I have a history of interesting addictions like these. More on those some other time. Right now, I've got to rush for my Business Environment Class.
