Sunday, 30th May 2021 at 11 AM,
My mother: Chinmay, you said, you’ll be helping me in selling our farm mangoes that were plucked earlier this week.
Me: when will it get ripe?
My mother: in a few days.
Me: please express few days in numbers!
My mother: 3-4 days
Me: Ok, I’ll work on it.
This is what I did,
11:30 AM: Took a selfie with the mangoes in the background.
11:35 AM: Created a Google Forms for customers to enter their contact details – quantity they want to buy – my payment details.
11:45 AM: Shortened the URL using bit.ly
11:50 AM: posted my selfie pic with the bit.ly link along with terms & conditions in three WhatsApp group.
12:05 PM: first-order received with payment.
By 1:30 PM: All mangoes booked.
1:45 PM: Edited Google Form to take pre-order for the next weekend.
2:00 PM: Went to our carton manufacturing factory to collect boxes to pack and also got a digital weighing scale.
2:30 PM: my mother, brother, and I along with two maids started to put all the mangoes into boxes.
3.15 PM: Delivery started.
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Order was taken on: Google form
Marketed on: Whatsapp
Payment received on: PhonePe
Delivery through: WeFast & Dunzo
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4 PM: My mother: Chinmay how much money have you received?
Me: I told XXX number
My mother: See, how much profit your mother made in one day!
Me: Ma, it is sales, not profit.
My mother: but I take care of the farm, so whatever money I earn from it, it is my profit.
My father overheard the conversation and said: Money towards the sale of boxes from my factory not yet received?
My mother: you eat 2-3 mangoes every day from my farm. First, pay for that!
Me: (in my mind) hmm…. let me dare not ask for my sales commission.
It’s their 44th Wedding Anniversary… still seeing them fight like tom & jerry is priceless!
A lesson that I am yet to learn:
selectively talk about numbers with my mother.
As Albert Einstein said,
“Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.”