Dharmendra General Store

Dharmendra General Store is out on Kanpur Road in the Shanti Nagar area. We are quite close to the Amausi Airport so you can hear the planes taking off all the time. It is a loud sound but you get used to it after a while. Lucknow has grown a lot and this road stays very busy with buses and trucks. I keep the shop open from early morning until quite late in the evening. Most of the stuff I sell is just basic household things like detergent, tea, and biscuits. The address is 226012 and we get a lot of people who are just passing through on their way to the airport. The shelves are mostly metal and I try to keep the heavy stuff like oil tins on the floor. I have a small fan that wobbles a bit on its stand. During the rainy season, the dampness gets into the shop and I have to be careful with the cardboard boxes. I usually eat my lunch sitting right here on the wooden bench. Sometimes my friends from the neighborhood come by just to chat about the local news or the traffic. It is a plain shop with no big signs or bright lights. I just try to keep what people ask for most, like cigarettes, matches, and mobile cards. The floor is concrete and it has a few cracks from where we dropped a heavy crate once.