Winter is mainly known for picnic season. People from all walks of life and youths love to arrange it, especially on Sunday. All Sundays are special and all the picnic spots witness huge crowd on this particular day.
This is a day for amusement and merrymaking for all those who organise picnic in the places of importance or places with scenic beauty.
But for small vendors, the season’s Sundays are dreary as they don’t get their expected number of customers. Santos Barik is a saloon owner. He manages his family and meets all other expenditure of the children from the income generated from a saloon. For him, Sunday is a heyday. But last Sunday, he was seen with a pale face. Reason: he did not get sufficient customers. “Most of the people and mainly those in jobs prefer Sunday for hair cutting. But last Sunday, their number was not even 10 per cent of the turnout in other Sundays,” said Barik with a gloomy face.
“But they will come to me on some day or other,” he consoled himself, lamenting that he was losing his extra earning of Sundays this season.
Purnami Samal is a roadside vegetable vendor. She also didn’t find the Sunday crowd near her shop. She fails to understand that picnic is the reason behind non-presence of many Sunday customers. “What happened todayIJ” a befuddled Purnami asked her fellow friends.
Md Parvez is the owner of an auto-rickshaw. He also did not get normal passengers like other Sundays. But Parvez knows the reason. Many other owners of the small shops faced the picnic impact as well. But they did not seem to be impatient as they hoped customers would turn up on other days if not on a Sunday.