Just Returned from India.....

Malkers

Well Nick, lets continue to lower the tone whilst we are all enjoying ourselves shall we.

Who on here has gone to attempt an innocent fart and then shit themselves?

Come on it must have happened to all of you in India, or is it just me?

Cheers
Malc
PS: Full on descriptions, lets have a prize for the most awkward situation its happened in!

Malkers

PPS: Did someone mention something about Varanasi somewhere?

oops!!

lotus blossom

alright! this thread is getting might dirty!!

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Sama

now that you mention it, yeah, it is kind of odd....

no PDAs in India, but people don't think twice of dropping a load on the street.

here, people make out in public, but cut one in a yoga class (not me, an occassional student!), and people get all embarrassed.

hmmmm.....any cultural anthropologists in the house??

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happy1

After reading this Im starting to worry about going to India!! We are going for 3 months, maybe thats too long?! Im expecting to see some eye opening things, but I didnt expect to see people just shitting along the streets

SHIMLA

That is just what you'll see, especially in the megapolis of Mumbai, particularly when your 'plane lands in the early hours and you make your way from the airport to South Mumbai !

You'll have to take these things in your stride if you seriously intend visiting India.

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traceyam

Good heavens, I don't think it's possible to stay too long in India!

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lotus blossom

it's funny, i've never seen it on my three trips. i've seen plenty of pissing, but not the other. kinda glad, axshully.

SHIMLA

When you're next in Mumbai, travel early morning ( 6.00 a.m.) by a suburban train from Churchgate to Borivali or from CST to Thane.

Alternatively, take a bus/taxi at the same time along the Western Express highway(from Bandra to Borivali) or along the Eastern Express highway(from Sion to Mulund).

scub_a_holic

It looks like my contract may be finishing at the end of March and yes I have contributed to this thread.

For the few people I have seen taking a dump or pissing on the streets.

There are a LOT of people and things I will miss a whole lot more when I leave here. I am disappointed that my stay may be ending. It doesn't matter what city you are in the world, there will be things that annoy you.

iwanttogoback

exactly, there might be confronting stuff, but that will probably not be the things that you leave thinking the most of.

Aspen

I love that he had such an air of weary decadence, so that the act of defecating in the street wasn’t enough for him. He still needed something to read."

Now it certainly takes a lot of "finesse" to do just that!

In our fine and squeaky clean city where you could be slapped with a heavy fine for just about anything ranging from littering to spitting to urinating in public, my friend once shared a story. Her 5-year old kid had momentarily "forgotten" how to pee in the open when she had to be brought to some bushes to answer nature's call while travelling on a coach with her family in the more rural parts of China! She told her mum that she just couldn't (not wouldn't) do it.

Little wonder I was considered "brave" to have gone to India late last year admist the Delhi bombings and the quake in Kashmir. I suppose the chances of me dying from such incidents do not worry my friends and family members more than stepping on some "freshly made" poo poo every now and then while there!

lotus blossom

when my son was young, about 9 perhaps, his peeing outdoors got us kicked out of a hotel. we had been on the road all day and it had been awhile since we tooked a pee break so when i was checking into the hotel he was outside releiving himself (unbeknownst to me at the time).

I had the key in my hand when the manager, who i think was of middle eastern descent, came in yelling at me and telling me to take my child and leave at once, grabbing the key from my hand. He was incensed that my son would do such a thing and no amount of pleading would change his mind. I was so fired up and pissed off that I drove another nine hours, on top of the nine I had already driven, finishing out the trip and going home.

p.s. addition: the reason i made a point of saying that the manager was of middle eastern descent was due to my curiousity about how this issue is looked at in other cultures, which i think could enrichen this scatalogical discussion!

scub_a_holic

I can't imagine any hotel ground in any culture being acceptable.

Great story though.

70s-80s overlander

Maybe we can get this guy to scope out the possibilities in Varanasi.

When all else fails, there are the public toilets built by Fuad Lokhandwala, supported by ads all over the walls!

“Two attendants clean after every use. A watchman guards it between 10 pm and 7 am.”

“Visitors are charged a token Rs. 1 and Rs.2, just to induce a sense of responsibility.”

“Fuad's toilet walls are not cheap to advertise on. The income from ads enables him to pay great wages, make a nice profit and build more toilets. He has 11 in Delhi so far, in places like Connaught Place, Lodi Gardens, Sundar Nagar, Golf Links etc. Each is a unique piece with marble, granite, chrome, plants, aquarium and above all with that heavenly peace that reigns in great washrooms. Fuad is forever making the rounds. Are the sills clean? Is the soap in the right place? Is the plumbing drip free? He's a perfectionist.”

“There are now about 80 toilets based on the Fuad model. He hopes all would pay attention to upkeep. But there is a built-in safeguard in the idea he has pioneered: if a toilet is run down, it won't attract advertisers.”

http://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.p...on-success/P0/