Page 118-128

At page 118-128 the Mongoose goes back to Dhanbad, Balram drinks some Whiskey for the first time and Pinky Madam gets mad because his bad behaviour.

So the Mongoose goes back to Dhanbad and Balram appreciates that, because Mr. Ashok as strict with him as the Mongoose always is. But what he dislikes is, that Pinky Madams skirts get even shorter as they were, when the Mongoose was with them. He does so, because now he always gets an errection, when he is driving them somewhere.
When Balram gets his wages from Mr. Ashok, he asks what Balram does with the money. Balram lies to him and says, that he sends most of it home. He buys his first liquor whith the money he has just got.
The next morning he takes his time to get up to his masters. He has headaches and looks ill, because of the Whiskey he had last night. Pinky Madam wants him to make some tea and while he is doing that he scratches his groin. Pinky Madam notices that and starts shouting at him how disgusting she thinks he is and kicks him out.
In the evening Balram has to take them to the mall. While ha is waiting for them he chats with the other drivers. The vitiligo-lips one is there as well. Again he offers Balram to get some illegal stuff fo Balrams master, but Balram refuses that again.
Balram tells you how hard the free time is, a servant has while he has to wait for his master. Many drivers get adicted to alcohol, because they don't know what to do with all that time. But Balram uses his time to think and so he hasn't a problem with it. He changes the worst part of his work o the best.
One night Balram goes to the local market and buys a T-Shirt, black shoes and toothpaste for himself. He brushes his teeth for the first time and wonders why his father hadn't told him to do so. He spits the toothpaste into the sink and wishes he could spit out his past as easily as that toothpaste.


I think it is remarkable that the local market in guagon is still opend at night. You don't have that in most of the western countries. The Saharamall where Pinky Madam and Mr. Ashok like to go in the book has opend from 08:00am - 12:00pm everyday. The Kaufhaus des Westens in Berlin for example usually has opend 9.30am - 20.00pm only monday - saturday. But I don't think that is a problem in India, because the employees don't get much money for it and if they'd say no there are many more people how would like to work there.

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