Shri Shyam Traders & Paint House

Our shop, Shri Shyam Traders & Paint House, is tucked into the Rajat Path Shopping Center in Mansarovar. It’s at number 12, so it isn't hard to find once you get inside the complex. Being in a shopping center means there’s always something going on around us, with people coming and going. We spend most of our time surrounded by cans of paint and different tools for the trade. It gets a bit messy sometimes, especially when we are moving heavy buckets around or checking the inventory on the high shelves. We’ve got stacks of all sorts of shades and brands. People come in looking for a specific color for their front door or maybe some supplies to fix up a leaky wall in their house. We just give them what they need and talk about the weather for a bit. It’s not a big corporate operation, just us working through the list of things to do each day. Sometimes the lights in the shopping center flicker, but we just keep going. My hands usually have a bit of dried paint on them by the end of the shift. We’ve been at this location for a good bit of time now, so we know most of the other shop owners nearby. We don't have a fancy office in the back, just a small stool and a ledger. We just try to get through the day’s orders without making too much of a fuss.