01-05-2019, 01:23 PM
“Looks like you are catching a cold because of your wet clothes.” Prashant said looking at kajal . “If you want, I can give you a clean shirt and a lungi to change into.”
“No, that’s fine. I can wait. It won’t take long to fix this anyway, right?”
“It will take about an hour, and…”
He was interrupted by another bout of sneezing from me. After my sneezes subsided, he looked pointedly at me. I could feel the sneezes getting worse. she decided that it would be stupid to risk getting pneumonia when there was an option to change out of my wet clothes.
“OK I suppose I should change.”kajal said
Nasir went to the corner and opened a box. He took out a towel, a relatively clean t-shirt, and a lungi. A lungi, for those who don’t know, is a sarong-like wrap that many Indian men wear. He gave it all to me and said, “As you can see, there is no other room. You can change in here. Nasir and I will wait outside.”
They walked out and she went to close the door. It was just a rusty bolt which shhe slid into the loop. There was a nail hanging from a thread near the bolt. The purpose of the nail, as she later realized, was to be inserted into a hole at the end of the bolt, to act like some sort of a lock. she didn’t realize it then and left the nail hanging as it was, instead of inserting it into the hole. Which, ironically, lead to further events.
“No, that’s fine. I can wait. It won’t take long to fix this anyway, right?”
“It will take about an hour, and…”
He was interrupted by another bout of sneezing from me. After my sneezes subsided, he looked pointedly at me. I could feel the sneezes getting worse. she decided that it would be stupid to risk getting pneumonia when there was an option to change out of my wet clothes.
“OK I suppose I should change.”kajal said
Nasir went to the corner and opened a box. He took out a towel, a relatively clean t-shirt, and a lungi. A lungi, for those who don’t know, is a sarong-like wrap that many Indian men wear. He gave it all to me and said, “As you can see, there is no other room. You can change in here. Nasir and I will wait outside.”
They walked out and she went to close the door. It was just a rusty bolt which shhe slid into the loop. There was a nail hanging from a thread near the bolt. The purpose of the nail, as she later realized, was to be inserted into a hole at the end of the bolt, to act like some sort of a lock. she didn’t realize it then and left the nail hanging as it was, instead of inserting it into the hole. Which, ironically, lead to further events.