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She scoops to Conquer

She scoops to conquer, I argued with my hubby who was knitting his brows and kept on telling me it was "stoops not scoops". Anyhow I was the winner when he left the place helplessly.

This scooping started fascinating me eversince I noticed its important role in daily life. She is the efficient housewife who distributes small quantity of ice-cream among a fairly large number of kids by "scooping" it tactfully. She has to "scoop" out the indolence of her husband and make him active. If she doesn't, the husband keeps on reading the newspaper and has to rush to the office without a bath and breakfast. She has to know how to "scoop" out the extra pocket money of  stingy husband's purse for her dear kids. She "scoops" the arithmetic of her expenditures namely sarees, lipsticks,sandals out of his brain and induces the mathematics of his extravagance namely cigarettes, coffee, cinema etc. She "scoops" out time to visit a beauty parlour during her busylike a bee routine. She scoops out the secret of togetherness of her in-laws by praising them and spreads the secret among the relatives.

There are many more scoopings. I haven't seen the middle-class housewife "stooping". Yet, she conquers. Doesn't she? 

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