Woman irked after day with shelf goes awry

 Sultana planned out the whole day in impeccable details. As someone prone to anxiety attacks, she had to. She was going out with her shelf.

After a long hiatus as a newly single woman, she decided to be shelf-partnered. Her childhood idol had recommended it. Her friends kept saying, "Love your shelf, love your shelf!"

And of course, the year 2020 was also all about "shelf love and shelf care" anyway. At this point it is important to note that sometimes Sultana misunderstood words.

Fast forward to Pohela Falgun, Sultana walks out with her shelf, only to find out Falgun was cancelled. But she didn't let that bother her.

She ended up calling a CNG through the OApa app at a 2 percent discount for shelf-partnered people. Sultana decided to show up to work to submit her story on "10 places in Dhaka with the most discount for shelf-partnered people on Valentine's Day".

"It's been a hard couple of months. With all my friends getting married, updating their relationship statuses on Facekindle and still constantly reminding everyone around them to be shelf-partnered, I am a little confused and frazzled, you know. At least at work I can pretend that I have it together," says a by-now distraught Sultana.

But what happened at the end of the day sent Sultana into a spiral. She was returning home when she got mugged, lost her shelf and felt absolutely distraught. The incident launched her quest for another therapist in this crazy city. And in digital Bangladesh, where else would she look other than on bikritikridotcom, where you can get anything from therapists to shelf-partnering options.

And guess who she found? Her very own old shelf.