Saturday, January 5, 2008

Fun in India!

So India is pretty cool. First off when you go out to eat you can order specific
items or you can get the "meal/thali". I LOVE THE MEAL/THALI!!!!
it is basically all the starch (rice/chapati) and sauces/dahl you can eat with your fingers. The first time we found this out we were eating at this sweet little joint and the waiter kept coming up to me and smiling with this three columned bowl. He didn't speak english but would look at my empty sauce places on my banana leaf (yes you get to eat of banana leaves!!!!!!!!!) i would nod and ask for more and he would refill my sauce spaces. then he would wiggle his head side to side. i got the larges kick out of the side to side head nod! it was great b/c he had this little smirk on his face as well. i have come to realize that this head wiggle is for everything, "when pointing to the bathroom- head wiggle, when just looking around in stores- head wiggle, when getting kicked out of a Hindu only temple- you guessed it the head wiggle!~ i love it

another finer point of traveling in India is the rickshaw drivers get paid if they take you to a store. So when you get into the rickshaw and ask to go somewhere they take you to a store and play dumb or act like they didn't hear you correct. THEN THEY TAKE YOU TO ANOTHER STORE! How can they play this trick twice with the same excuse is what i'm thinking. But anyway on to the story. Diane and i were walking around Dehli and we wanted to go to the metro. a taxi driver pulled up and said 20 rupees to the metro and that was a good deal so we got in. then he went into the whole "behind the sense working of the taxi/store scam"
the driver gets 100 rupees from the store each time he takes a foreigner there. so he wanted us to get in on the deal. if we went to one store we didn't have to pay to go to the metro. if we went to 2 stores he would give us 100 rupees. I was kind of considering it, but di was feeling ill and she wasn't buying it so she said to just take us to the metro. about 2 minutes after we refused his scam he started asking if we showered that day. then he started telling us that we smell and we should go back to our country if we are going to smell up his taxi, and how we were poor and how we really smell. i tried to roll down the window but he just yelled at me. it was real funny!

more to come~

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