50 percent off prices or 100 percent off humanity?

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Ramadan has arrived and so have the different offers at various brands in Lahore. One such Sale was at Almas. Almas is an apparel brand but it is more famous for its shoes than other clothing items.

Hence, it was not difficult to attract "defence ki aunties" to its DHA outlet. A glimpse of the sale is shown below:

What caught my attention was not the fact that these ladies were carrying shoes in their hands and hitting others on their face while pushing and pulling through the crowd. That was a "normal thing" during such sales.

What actually caught my attention was when a little girl (around five years of age) fell down and instead of being shaken out of the extreme greed for shoes, these shoes hogging aunties trampled over the little girl.

I have never felt so ashamed in my life as I felt at that moment. So was it fifty percent off prices or 100 percent off humanity?

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