+ADw-written April 2007+AD4-


You know you're in India when:

        - Everyone is very attentive and concerned with giving you good service,
            but they don't know what specifically to -do-.

        - Whether that's a mosquito flying around the meeting room becomes a 
            really, really, really important topic to the Westerners.

        - The Travel Channel's No Reservations covers exotic eateries in
            faraway locations...in the US.

        - Local cell phone calls cost +ACQ-1.50 an hour

        - You haven't gone more than 3 hours without a power failure.
 
        - Oh no...I didn't just rinse my toothbrush with -tap- water, did I?

        - You haven't gone more than a day playing without Frogger for real, sprinting to 
            evade a careening stream of tuk-tuks, cars, and busses.

        - All the vegetarian dishes are extraordinary tasty, even
            though it's hard to tell what the ingredients are.
        
        - The cows walking in traffic aren't afraid of the cars, and the drivers 
            aren't afraid of the cows.

        - Only the finest hotels fumigate your hotel room and the corridors every day.

        - The camels in the street seem to be cool about the busses, and I 
             never saw them try to push over a tuk-tuk... even though I'm sure they
             are tempted to.

        - There's constant cleaning and mopping, but there's no evidence
            that any soap is being used.

        - Even at 110 degrees, everyone is polite.