Krishna General Store

Krishna General Store is pretty easy to find since we are right near the New Police Chowki on Nasirabad Road in Adarsh Nagar. Having the police post so close makes the area feel a bit different, maybe a bit more orderly I suppose. We open up pretty early to catch the people heading to work. The shelves are mostly filled with stuff you’d expect—shampoo sachets, cooking oil, and bags of rice. It gets pretty busy around noon when the sun is hot and people want cold drinks from the fridge. The fridge hums quite loudly, but you get used to it after a while. I’ve been thinking about repainting the front sign because the sun has faded the blue quite a bit. My hands are usually dusty from moving sacks of flour around. We don't really have a fancy layout; we just put things where they fit. Sometimes we run out of change and have to ask the neighbor if they have any coins. It's a friendly enough spot, and we see the same faces every day. People stop to talk about the weather or the traffic while I bag up their groceries. We also have a small selection of stationary since there are some offices around here. The floor is made of old stone that stays cool even when it is boiling outside. I spend a lot of time restocking the cold drinks because they sell out fast during the summer months. It’s a lot of lifting and moving boxes, but it keeps me moving. My nephew comes by in the evenings to help.