The Frills of Dubai (Festival City)

The Festival City is one of the swanky malls in Dubai, though it is not a ‘themed’ one. You can see for yourself how swanky the place is from our photos.

It is quite a pleasant mall. It is going to be a ‘city within a city’ when fully developed.

They also organize ‘Promotions and Events’ frequently, basically Sales tricks played upon the unsuspecting public.

We were the gullible victims of such an Event at the Festival city. The link below will give you more information about it.

http://www.dubaifestivalcity.com/news_eventdetails.aspx?eid=20

We wandered into an aisle and came across a very beautiful display of silver cutlery and tableware. However, the most beautiful object among all that clutter was the decorative, dark blue velvet tea-cozy.

Other bright red or golden yellow or sparkling white-and-green dish-covers adorned the table.

“Oh, just look at that blue tea-cozy!! Isn’t it a darling?” I said to Avi. “And oh, how lovely those covers are! Come to think of it, they look fit to be the crowns of the kings.”

Avi was reading the descriptions of the display on the placards.

“They ARE crowns of the kings” he said with a straight face.

“Now, now, don’t you go on pulling my leg. What the crowns would be doing on a dining table amongst all this cutlery? Would the kings eat the crowns in times of dire necessity a la Charlie Chaplin in ‘Gold rush’?” I asked sarcastically.

That particular scene from the movie Gold Rush, where a starving Charlie Chaplin eats his boot ceremoniously is a classic tragi-comic scene -- never forgotten if you see it once.

“You are too vain to wear your spectacles in public and then you can’t read and also don’t believe me when I read something aloud to you.” he said vexedly. “So, take out your glasses and read.”

Well, he is, sort of, right. I do NOT like to wear glasses in public and so, most of the times I just pretend that I am able to read without the specs.

However, now I had no alternative but to take out my specs from my handbag and put them on. Reluctantly I did it and read the descriptions.

Avi was not pulling my leg. They WERE crowns of the kings, some were original and some were replicas.

Unhappily I took off my specs and remembered my first blurred vision of a dark blue, velvety, sequined tea-cozy, which I had almost decided to buy.

Sometimes, clear vision is not a blessing.