Thursday, February 05, 2026

Ordered printouts from Blinkit

 So yesterday night I got too late to get home and the print shops had closed. Flying tomorrow to Mumbai and flying back the same day. I could have gotten a ticket back on the next day, and stay a night, but somehow I like the idea of flying in and out to an event better, and I like to fly light. It is going to be a long day, so I will be carrying my laptop. Will go back home and pack today. 

So, was planning to check in and get the printouts today morning. Air India gives only one seat for free, and mine was the middle one in the back row for both flights. Im not paying extra for a freaking seat, will sit between two fat old men, no problem. The print shop (in Delhi, the shops still have 'Photostat' boards in front of them) was closed yet again, and my Landlord has an overpriced print shop as well, which puts him in conflict with a lot of customers because they typically discover the high prices only after printing. 

One time he went all racist and filled the years of a Nepali calling him Chinki and where you have come from lol. The casual racism shocked me, but I could not do anything right there, so had to stay silent. Did not want to simply yell back at him in a volatile situation and make it worse. So I never take printouts from him as revenge. 

Anyway, so I used Blinkit on the way to work. The document uploading process is complex and unreliable. The interface is also confusing for when you want to upload multiple files, and get multiple printouts of each file. Took me essentially half the trip to get it right and order. But, the timing was pretty perfect, I got to work, had a smoke, and the delivery partner arrived. Smooth. Only small hiccup is that the location of the partner showed somewhere else even though he was right in front of my face. So the GPS is unreliable. 

The Uber app is still acting up, and still showing me in Mumbai when I am in Delhi. I have to first set the location, then edit it on the map. Today though, the driver was right where I made the booking. He dropped me off somewhere else only though, but I did not complain, I walked for about half a block to my office. Some woman in a car honked at me and gave me eyeballs for no reason. People in Delhi are idiots who honk just like that hahahaha. 

Fuck Delhiites. 

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