Dumbest thing you've done in India

bijapuri

had a roomate (many many many years ago) who, convinced the staff was pilfering his belongings, somehow secured a cobra, which he put into his dresser. Sure enough, we were taking afternoon tea on the veranda that very day when we heard a blood-curdling shriek, followed by a blur that looked a lot like one of the servants flying by.

It was a dumb thing to do, cuz then we couldn't be sure said cobra wasn't lurking in the bldg, so we had to be careful for a few days.

Since the servant WAS pilfering, he couldn't report us.

end of pilfering, I might add . . . .

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ananda2193

Reminds me of a guy from Oregon I know who owns the only microbrewery in Honduras. The D&D Brewery. He was building his place by Lake Yojoa and he had stuff stolen all the time, so as he's clearing out his property he finds 3 coral snakes. He puts them in a tool box by his front gate with some rocks inside to add weight. He hides watching and 2 guys come by at night and steal the toolbox....Don't know what happened to them, but I'm sure when they opened it, were in for a hell of a surprise.

He also shot his nightwatchman in the leg when he caught him and another person breaking in at night aand taking shit from him.

Welcome to Honduras!

Though I love it there.

kpnuts

Relied on the coach conductor to wake me at Vadodara on goa-sankrapati express at 2.30 in the morning and had to go back 200 KM after jumping of the moving train when it slowed down at a station which it was not going to stop at! other wise ending up in KOTA.
I had a few whiskey shots as well and the mobile phone alarm failed too!

Diana

1. Wore a "housedress" in public before I knew that was wrong.

2. Said I "wasn't hungry" at mealtime in Kerala.

3. To Be Determined...

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Nick-H

Errrrr... Decided to live here?

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lotus blossom

yeah, this is indeed dumb, but not an uncommon sight. the first time i encountered it was in kashmir of all places . i was staying in Pahalgam, in a cottage with other foriegners unbeknownst to be. when i first arrived three british women were sunbathing in the front yard, wearing teeny-weeny bikinis. the problem was that there were over a dozen construction workers on the property who were having a horrific time getting anything done. the women seemed absolutely clueless, or maybe they just liked the attention they were garnering...

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Nick-H

As in a nightie? But in kerala it seems ok, and here it is ok if a dupata is added --- depending on what part of town.

edwardseco

I took rockets to India to fly during the monsoon. 5 4 3 2 1 wait its raining again. But, my boy and I have just started building a super computer so its relative..

docgirl2005

My college friends and I(mostly foreigners and NRI students) took an auto back to our campus in Chennai circa 1995.

We were in such good moods from enjoying the Sunday together at the beach, lunch, outings, that we started singing in the auto. The auto driver mistook this as coming onto him in a flirtatous way which was NOT our intention. Young girls who didnt know better I guess...hey 17 year old's can be naive

He started shouting and making advances at us instead of driving to our destination. We quickly stopped singing, paid his fare, and ran to another auto---where we promptly behaved ourselves

How dangerous and careless now that I think back 12 years later. But ahhh the stupidity of youth I guess.

vargoje3

I'd have to say the dumbest thing that me and my buddy did in India was catch a cobra. Luckily no one was bit and i was just a spectator because after drinking all afternoon watching Cricket i didn't think picking it up was all that smart for some reason.

Diana

No..actually it was a cotton dress from Mexico but looks a lot like the print dresses women wear only in the house in Kerala. I wore one on a train and my traveling companion explained the funny looks I was getting (funnier than usual that is) were due to my wearing of a "housedress" outside of the home.

In Kerala, it seemed you were "ok" wearing most anything...as long as you wore a dupatta with it!

k9healer

In a what was a rather upscale restaurant in Gangtok, we were served our dinner, but the server did not notice that there was no cutlery on the table right away. We assumed, after being in a small town for the week prior where cutlery was generally not offered, that this was the same. So, we began eating with our hands and chatting away when a very apologetic waiter rushed over with cutlery. I guess we should have looked around first.

I thought it was pretty funny....my friend was completely mortified.

vargoje3

Oh i also got a little to close to a couple crocs and alligators at the Croc Bank by Chennai.

shashank.aggarwal

You seem to have knack of flirting !! with danger though...

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Nick-H

That ankle-length cotton-print dress that women wear around the house (at least in this part of India) is a nightie! What's more, it is much the same garment as my mother might have slept in in 1956*. Whilst some of the prints (tie-die, for instance) can be pretty, most of them are very effective at rendering a woman unattractive. A long sack with frilly bits!

'house-dress' is a good translation, though, although it does get slept in, except of course by the most traditionally dressing women who lie down to sleep in their saris, and wash and change to a clean one in the morning. The last time I posted anything here (about the time we got locked out) mentioning Mrs N in her nightie it caused some confusion. I hate to think what mental pictures some IMers might have formed !

vargoje3 --- stunning stuff with the snake; great pics . At least at the croc bank, when they give you one to hold (yours looks a lot bigger than the one they gave me ), there are people around who know what they're doing. One hopes!