India
Posted by parsingtime on February 3, 2007
I’m adding an India category because holy crap we are moving to India where I will have to see this on all the trucks:
Is it Horn, OK, please; Horn OK, please; Horn OK please? I just don’t get it and it bothers me to see it. Also in India they don’t believe in safety belts. This also drives me crazy because if I’m ever going to die in a fiery car accident it will be in India where people don’t believe in lanes, cows/pigs/bicyclists all share the road with cars and no one wears a seat belt!
Overall a good trip to India…though there was some intestinal diease which had me writhing in agony and moaning to my mother that I wasn’t ever having kids because if I couldn’t survive Indian intestinal disease without thinking I was dying from the pain how would I survive childbirth? Exactly, I won’t, therefore no kids without heavy sedating drugs. Also, there is no dignity in intestinal disease.
I went to a wedding while in India. I wish I had the photos to post. It was Monsoon Wedding to a T (without the incest). There were white horses, dancing in the rain, a random band, colorful tents and the whole nine yards. It was quite an experience. There were also seven million flies, twelve billion malaria carrying mosquitos, and people serving lunch with their BARE FREAKING HANDS. Needless to say I did not eat, not knowing where those hands had been (other than in my food) and because it is gross regardless.
And I am going to add that sitting by the restroom on the Virgin flight back was absolutely disgusting. I like Indian people I really do, but I hate travelling them. They push as if they won’t get off the plane and ohmygosh the plane may take off again before they get off. Also from my experience by the restroom, very few of them wash their hands after using the restroom (also making me happy that I did not partake in the wedding food).
Oh, more to come on the whole moving to India.
little indian said
So India is dirty
poor and filthy
polluted, diseased
overridden with flies and mosquitoes
uneducated, ill-mannered and uncultured.
We all know that, tell us something new.
You say,
“I like Indian people I really do”…
Do you really?
Any Indian reading this blog
will find it hard to believe.
Is hurting one’s feelings
a way of showing
how much you like them?
Do you really have to go to India?
Don’t they have enough problems, as it is?
opinionated indian said
I wonder why you are still moving to India inspite of all the above? More cash…eh? Trying to shield your kids from the US culture? What?
Arbit said
Dude, I am from India and currently at Seattle, USA. Your post shows how much you want to be seen as an “Americanized Indian” who wants to shun the “filth” that you didn’t notice at all till you landed in US. People started telling you how India is so dirty and you readily agreed, after all you are now in USA, the clean heaven – that’s externally ofcourse. You never talk about how screwed up social relations are in US and how boring and mundane life here is, how people are so obsessed with rules and getting to the top of the ladder. Do you know how fucked up the medical system in US is? I got a bill of 5000$ for falling of a bike and getting minor injuries. Ofcourse, I had insurance but that only covered 90% of the cost. I did some research and found that they have to charge so much because they need to protect themselves from million dollar lawsuits that people file against hospitals now and then(Its the same with tuition fess in universities). So finally who’s losing out here? The very people who sue institutions at the drop of a hat. Have you ever thought about that?
vatsan said
we indians are like this wonly. if u no like us, u can settle in usa n hobnob with those who wear seatbelts etc etc blah blah blah.
we no ask u to come, u come on ur own, then don bitch bout how we r. u no like u no come. understand? now u no waste bytes posting such shit on ur blog!!
K.Shyam said
People who use paper to wipe the shit of their asses can never be called hygienic in any sense of the world.
K.Shyam
sree said
I repeat what I said in PK’s blog, Vatsan!
The level of cribbing is inversely proportionate to the kind of living style these ppl must have had before going to the US of A!
Hey Parsingtime ..
I think you shd stick to your original decision of not having kids…
After all India does’nt need another genertion of screwed-up characters !!!
Apu said
I think it’s sad that all these people are giving you shit about this post. This is the problem with the Internets… They let any just about any reactionary, desperate-for-attention loser chime in on otherwise interesting blogs.
If you continue to get shit from the pissed off community of people who read your blog yet can’t take a joke, you should direct them to the following USA Today story: http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2006/12/size_matters_co.html
Andy said
Hey Parsing,
Forget all of those hate comments. Read this –
http://superstarksa.com/2007/02/08/making-an-ass-out-of-u-and-me.
It might make you feel better.
Sab said
>>BARE FREAKING HANDS
Haha… Don’t freak out. You are not going to get any disease because of that. Anyway a hundred other people are eating food served by those very same hands right? If ur fear were to be true, India should run out of its stock anti-diarrhea medicines in one day.