Common Sense

Dear Readers,

So there’s this thing called common sense. Most people have it, some people unfortunately don’t. Some people have more of it than others. Well most people in India seem to be in the unfortunate group that lacks this wonderful thing called common sense. For example, they make their showers really tall. (At least all of the showers I’ve seen are really tall). They’re like, 8-9 feet high. So you would think that they would make shower curtains to fit these tall showers, because that would be the common sense thing to do, right? Well they don’t. They only carry your average shower curtain length, which about 6 1/2 -7 feet long. Here's a few pictures;

it's just ridiculous...i laugh every time i go in my bathroom.

 it's quite unesessary how high they put the rod above the shower head...

the curtain is like a foot and a half higher than my floor...

So every morning when I take a shower, my floor gets soaked. No matter how far I push my shower head to angle it away from the gap; my floor still gets all wet. It’s ridiculous. And that’s not the only thing. J-walking apparently isn’t illegal here. No matter how much traffic, or how fast the cars and motorcycles are going, people just waltz right into the street at random spots to cross. I swear I’m going to witness someone getting run over while here. It’s scary! They don’t even cross at corners where the traffic is a little slower, which would be the common sense thing to do, but I guess if your destination is right across the street, you might as well? I don’t know. Another thing, it makes sense to have one switch per light, or even one switch for two light that are right next to each other. But no, that’s not how things work here. There are at least two switches per light. PER LIGHT. Each individual light has its own two switches. It drives me insane. Also, all of the outlets have a switch, which is kind of cool, but if you forget to turn the switch on then you think that the outlet doesn’t work. Until you remember that, oh yeah! You’re in India and they have switches on their outlets. Another thing about the switches that gets me every time is that up is off and down is on. That is not how it is in the US. Gets me every time. There’s much much more, but that’s all I can think of at the moment.

With all my heart, Kayla