More Funnies from the Field

So after fleeing from extortionists (yeah that's another post for another day), two dog bites within a week, and 45C/110F heat in the desert I was g-chat extolling to our comrade-in-arms, Ms. Zoe James, the virtues of field research in character building.

She replied, among other more introspective and insightful thoughts: 'Wanna hear something funny?'

To which I replied, 'FUUUUUCK yeah I do!'

This g-chat story followed, in the words of our beloved Ms. James:

so the monsoon came yesterday

lots

9:55 PM i got caught in it a couple of times but one particularly funnily

it was the evening, i'd popped out to get some water

it starts pissing it down,like buckets from the sky

i take cover in a sari shop where i sit for a half hour

i need to get home for dinner, so i brave it when it stops a little

only the road is a river

i lose a flip flop

9:56 PM i get soaked to the bone

and the red stripe in my white scarf runs

so i am walking down a dirt road

in one flip flop

with red dye all over me

9:57 PM with all the locals taking cover in stores and saying 'what is madam doing'?

'is madam ok?'

and all i can do is laugh hysterically

so they think i'm a lunatic

i found my flip flop at the end of the road

picked it out of a drain

put it on

and walked home

laughing the whole wayeveryone here now thinks i'm actually crazy
me: oh and why did you feel compelled to walk through the monsoon, why didn't you wait?

Zoe: well

9:59 PM it didn't look like it was going to stop (it didn't)

me: well, you are not giving them a lot to work with for a contrary view

Zoe: and i didn't want to get in a rickshaw coz the buses were all going too quickly

and there was obvi going to be an accident

by the end of my walk i couldn't even see there was w\so much water running down my face

10:00 PM me: insane
Ahhh, if we could all just look fools, ford the monsoon road rivers, and find that lost flip flop at the end of the road. put it back on and walk home for supper.
Keep truckin' my friends. Just keep on truckin'