Reverse Culture Shock

Things I could not have seen in India:

  • A few weeks back, a man at the bus stop was spending his waiting time chasing cigarette butts into the gutter, systematically, undisturbed by curious onlookers. Now you understand why Switzerland is a clean country.
  • Two days ago, a woman in the (clean) toilets at my workplace dropped her purse on the floor near the sink. She actually took a piece of paper to pick up the purse with. She was doing something with her ham sandwich before that - I now suspect she was washing and drying the ham.

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  1. […] Not for the world, but for me. I’ve been posting less on Climb to the Stars because I somehow feel that many small things that I used to post about at the beginning aren’t really worthy of a full post and the attention of many readers who do not necessarily know me. I have developed some expectations concerning the quality of what I write there. […]

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