Thursday, October 11, 2007

Holy Shit!!!

I was 100 meters away from my car when my left barefoot landed in a large heap of cow poop. I looked down at the warm greenish mound and refrained myself from screaming like a young Western Girl. I told my friends that I would turn back to the car to clean my foot and sandal with my antiseptic cleaning wipes. “No, no, no, we’ll just continue walking to the Temple. There you will find running water.” I agreed in disbelief and convinced myself to stay calm. I walked for one kilometer with Holy poop on my foot before I arrived to the Temple. For those of you who do not know, cow dung is a source of fuel and fertiliser here and is often dried and used as coals to cook food. Cow dung is considered sacred among Hindus. I rushed to the bathroom to rinse my foot and sandle. The holy poop, would not come off of my NOW holy left foot; therefore, I had to scrape the holy poop off with my left hand. “Great! Now I have a holy left hand too!” After cleaning the poop off I walked towards my friends holding my left hand and foot as far away from my nose as possible.

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