One thing that's always baffled me is the constant questioning I get by strangers everytime I travel. By now, I'm such an expert at predicting the volley of queries that will shoot off from my fellow passenger's mouth any minute, that I feel like an amateur clairvoyant. I even know the order, by heart:
1. You are travelling alone?
2. Why?
3. Buy why?
4. Are you married?
5. So are you travelling with your parents?
6. No friends either? Tsk Tsk!
5. So then you are going there to meet someone?
6. So are you a student in that case?
7. So you don't have any work there?
8. Absolutely nothing?
9. You are travelling ALONE? ( pupils dilate, lower jaw drops)
10. Back to question number 2
And the viscious cycle continues, each time with different expressions and exaggerated gesticulation. Suspicious looks, disapproving nudges, she's-not-a-morally-upright-good-Indian-girl looks, and sometimes safety tips. A young gentleman even asked me once if I had run away from home. I had to reassure myself in my head that I indeed WAS a harmless backpacker bumming around peacefully, and didn't have the look of a street urchin or a juvenile child on the run. Constant travel across India has mellowed me down though. I no longer look shocked/surprised if people don't understand that I'm just trying to explore a superb country which others are either not privileged to do or travel half the globe to do. I guess my flaw lies in being an Indian trying to holiday in her own country rather than buying a 4 nights/5 days package to Phuket.
About Me
- fidgety feet
- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~Mark Twain
5 comments:
Ha! The perennial problem of people not minding their own bloody business! Thats why people suck and we should get rid of all of them. ok maybe not all of them. cuz we need some people to make fun of right? nice to see you "blog"....keep amusing me :)
Lovely. Well written. I loved the quotation by Mark Twain. Surely something I could draw inspiration from. Would love to read your travelogues, the operative word(s) being ‘your’ and/or ‘travelogues’ depending on my mood!
better late than never! good to see u surface in blogland, its funny, squishy, marshy, hard here! ur fidgety feet will need a good pair of sneakers! put 'em on!
Ha Ha Ha Ha !! Excellently Written . Pen Down Some more.
I guess there are some other questions too, that people would want to ask:
What's your caste?
You married?
Not yet?
Why?
What happened?
What kind of boy/girl do you want?
My elder boy is married, but we're looking for a suitable match for our younger one; he works in the PWD department/post office. Vry smart boy :)
How much do you earn?
But you know what...I've only been surprised n amused at these questions. They reflect the reality
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