💬 The battery shop guy who drew me a diagram

Our inverter battery died last week and I had to buy a new one. I know nothing about batteries. I went to a small shop in Kukatpally. 3 batteries on the shelf, all black, from 7,500 to 14,000. I asked which one is best. The shopkeeper, an older man with reading glasses on his forehead, said, depends. Depends on what? He said, what do you run on it? So I told him. 2 fans, 4 lights, a WiFi router, sometimes the TV. He nodded and took a pen. He drew the whole thing on the back of a bill. Fans here, lights here, how many hours. There were 6 people waiting behind me. One man sighed loudly. The shopkeeper ignored him completely. He said, you don't need the 14,000 one, the middle one is plenty. I braced for the usual push. It never came. He even said the 14,000 one is meant for shops. I bought the middle one for 9,800. He stuck a label on top with the date for the warranty. He also said to check the water level every 3 months. I put that in my phone. My brother in Dubai laughed when I told him. He said shopkeepers there don't do that. The battery has been running fine for 6 days. We had a 2 hour cut on Tuesday and nobody noticed. I went back yesterday to buy distilled water and he remembered my name. I never told him my name. Turns out it was on the bill. I still felt like a regular. I'll be going back to him for anything electrical from now on.

Drawing the whole thing on the back of a slip is the kind of service you remember for years. I bought my inverter battery from a shop in Dilsukhnagar where the owner asked me to list every device and then said I did not need the 14,000 one. He lost a sale and I send people to him now. Which battery did you pick in the end?

A guy at a hardware store near Ameerpet spent almost ten minutes explaining the difference between two types of drill bits I had no clue about, while a line was forming behind me.