Garg Kirana Store

If you are heading down Bhangel Gohja Road, you will find Garg Kirana Store right there among the other shops. We have been here for a good amount of time, watching the road get busier and busier every year. The shop is filled with bags of rice and different kinds of pulses that we weigh out for people. It is a simple place with a concrete floor and wooden counters that have seen a lot of use. My brother and I take turns being here so there is always someone to help out. We get our stock from the main market every week, so sometimes there are boxes piled up near the entrance that we haven't had time to move yet. People from the nearby houses come in for their monthly rations. It is mostly a lot of weighing things and putting them into paper bags. The dust from the road sometimes comes inside so we have to wipe the jars down pretty often. We don't have a big fancy computer system, we still use a notebook for most things and a simple scale. It gets a bit hot in the afternoons but we have a small fan that keeps us going. It is just a local business where we try to keep everything people ask for, from cooking oil to salt and spices. It feels like home because we spend more time here than anywhere else. It is just life.