House hunting

Recently a friend was posted to Delhi from Ludhiana. He left his  wife and three children with his mother-in-law temporarily, till he  he was able to find a suitable accommodation.He wanted to stay in a hotel.We offered our guest room till he could find a suitable accommodation. He  happily agreed to  our proposal. He joined his office the next day and decided  to go for house hunting on the week end.  In the mean time he started  marking  the advertisements in different newspapers. He wanted to take a house in South Delhi. Hence only the houses  available  in South Delhi were marked. In Ludhiana he was paying Rs. 35,000/ as rent for a three bed room house, which had a lawn in  front and the back yard.He had an estimated budget of Rs.60,000. On Sunday morning my husband accompanied his  friend  for house hunting.  They must have seen at least six or seven houses. But the rent was touching the sky.  In a dark and dingy  lane they saw a house,which had only three small rooms and the rent quoted was 50,000 rupees. Both of them came home tired and dejected.I consoled him ,"Don't be disheartened. Next week you may find some thing better."The whole week, he again earmarked some houses in the newspaper. He contacted a property agent, who gave him great hope that he would be able to arrange a house  within his estimated budget.The experience that he got in the second week end was worse than  the previous week.
 I told him to leave the desire of obtaining a residential accommodation in South Delhi. In the evening he phoned his wife. At first she started  taunting him that he was unable to accomplish even such a small task. Then I spoke to her and told her the position.After hearing from me she seemed to be relaxed. She gave a green signal to her husband  to search in other areas. I also advised him to take leave for a week , if he wanted some concrete  result.Now started a thorough searching program. The two friends left  for house hunting in the morning and came back in the evening. From the contours of their face I could judge that there was no success. It became a daily routine. They discussed the experience that they had during the day. Listening  to their observations we all had a hearty laugh. One land lord said that  no nonvegetarian food  was allowed to be cooked. Another  said  that a couple with more than two children  will not be given the house.  In another place the condition was that no body would be allowed to enter the house after nine'o clock at night. Another interesting condition which one of  the landlords   prescribed was that the lady of the house  should not be a working woman (how funny!) and wanted the marriage certificate of the couple. My husband's friend was disgusted.  He had come to Delhi on promotion. Next day, he submitted an application to his boss for reverting him back to a  lower position and post him back to Ludhiana. His parting words were,"Every thing can be achieved in this city, but it is impossible to get a rented accommodation without fulfilling a plethora of impossible  conditions." 

WEDNESDAY PROMPT 

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