Agrawal Auto Mobiles

Lalipur Chowk is always loud. Being inside the Indian Oil Petrol Pump area means there’s always a car idling or someone honking. We’re right there at Agrawal Auto Mobiles. The floor is stained with oil and it’s hard to keep it clean for more than five minutes. We spend most of our time under hoods or checking tires. Most of the folks who come in are from right here in Lalipur. They know us and we know their cars, which usually have some weird noise we’ve fixed three times before. It’s not a big fancy showroom. It’s a place where you get grease under your fingernails. We keep a lot of spare parts stacked up in the back, mostly for the popular models you see on the roads around here. Sometimes it gets so busy we barely have time for tea in the afternoon. The petrol pump staff are our neighbors, so we see them all day long. If a bike stalls out or a car won't start after filling up, they usually push it over to us. We’ve got a couple of benches for people to sit on while they wait, but mostly they just stand around and watch us work. It’s honest work, just fixing things so people can get back on the road. The sun hits the front of the shop pretty hard in the evenings, making everything glow a bit before we close up for the night.