Funny travel incidents: Culture Shock! and Mr P

A lot of times very funny things happen while you travel. The memory of these events stay clear in one's mind even years later. I would like to share some of these funny travel incidents with you all.

In India, especially in Kerala, we have the habit of pulling out the sheets and blankets and giving them a vigorous shake before spreading them out to make our bed just before we lie down and go to sleep. This is a practice handed down from ages and must have been followed as a measure of safety in a land with plenty of spiders, snakes, scorpions, centipedes etc.

When my friend Mr P, went to New Zealand for the very first time, he stayed at a motel. Mr P seems to be an Avatar of the famous Mr Bean and let me settle your doubts right now,... the P is not short form for Pea! This was his first trip away from India and he was very nervous and fidgety. In the evening as he was retiring to his bed, he pulled out the nicely laid out sheets and blankets from the bed that had already been made and started shaking them vigorously, out in the hallway.


The landlady came running and asked him, "What are you doing???"


"I am shaking my bed sheets and blankets" my friend said.


"What for?!" asked the landlady.


"To get rid of spiders."


"Oh I am very sorry if you have found any spiders in your bed sir. I am not sure how they could have gotten there."


"Well....., I didn't find any spiders...", he replied


"Then why on earth are you shaking the bedsheets?"


"Well.. just in case?" He replied .. scratching his head.


The land lady gave him a strange glare and asked him if he could do all his "shaking the bedsheets" in his room.


This was definitely a big culture shock!!!!!!!!!!!

For the Landlady!

For more adventures/misadventures of the Avatar of Mr Bean, please go to
http://avatarofmrbean.blogspot.com/



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