Penny wise, pound foolish: These words can be used to describe many people who practice a kind of false economy. They also apply to certain kinds of people who fuss over little details but ignore the main task at hand. One hears many stories about people who haggle over a few paise with the vegetable seller and cheerfully go to posh restaurants for dinner where everything is overpriced. Sometimes, out of a false sense of economy, people buy the cheapest foods in the market which ruin their health and result in huge doctor’s bills and expensive medicines. Such people are to be pitied for they are incapable of considering something from a global point of view. They merely consider the immediate present, do not think about the future and never learn from past mistakes.
