…I’ll be the first to admit my wee grey cells often barge around in utter confusion up there… thoughts sum’times come flying in and out at the strangest whim… today, I decided to sit quietly amid the hustle and bustle of a huge shopping-mall complex, enjoying an ice cream in the communal food court area… being around lunch time, the joint was packed with families, sitting at the array of plastic-topped tables, much-beloved of designers of such eating places… a rough and ready head count would prob’ly have reckoned around 400 to 500 persons in the munchatorium… occasionally, I do little mental arithmetic things… more ‘visualisations’ rather than computations… so I began to think, ‘how many of these eateries in shopping-malls are in this large city, and how many people are occupying them right now?’…
…next thought, ‘how many of these across the entire country?’… carry the idea…
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