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Quick Commerce to the rescue !

Travelling is not my favourite thing in the world. I dread every time I need to take a train or a flight. I feel physically sick every time i need to take a flight for work. I do it eventually, but before that I have to play every scenario in my head. What if I miss the flight, what if it is delayed, what if it is cancelled, well, you get the pattern. Once I play out every possible way it could go horribly wrong, I also play out what I would do in such situations. Helps me ease out my nerves because then I have thought through all scenarios and know exactly how to react to each one of them. I should also add now that I do not like to check in my baggage and wait for it at the baggage claim. Not for the lack of time, I always go way ahead of scheduled departure that I could check in and complete security check 10 times before I board my flight ! It is just because...well, no apparent reason. So for a 1 day work trip, I obviously will only pack one bag with my laptop, charger, wallet and one pair of office-wear with me. So when I had to fly out to another city for a meeting on Sunday, I choose the travel-lite approach. Monday morning, 7 am , I am at my hotel room, ironing out my nylon top, obviously because I had crammed it into my bag along with my laptop. One sleeve was beautifully ironed and I looked at it admiringly, no clue how that would change in a minute when the other arm burnt under the iron's heat and I was helplessly looking at the top. I panic for a minute, make an SOS call to my friend asking her to bring me something to wear. Not sure if that would really work out,I called up the Hotel reception,frantically seeking their inputs on where I could secure a formal top at 7.30 in the morning. While she was initially unsure, she asked me to check on Zepto when i confirmed negative for my attempt with Instamart. I immediately installed the app, looked for tops and thankfully found they were available for delivery in 30 minutes. Beggars cannot be choosers they say, so I had to choose one that would look formal enough and would fit me just enough. I ended up buying something that fit me that was more the length of a kurta than a formal top. I had to make it work, so tucked all of the fabric in my pants and tighened by belt. Voila, I did not look too shabby. That worked well enough for me to confidently strut out of the hotel and into my office and meet up clients. So all is well that ends well and this definitely was a WIN for quick commerce, and also for me.
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