A part of growing up in
India is getting your slippers stolen from outside a temple. Well, I was lucky in that department that I
never faced such a situation. I was very careful and used to wear the ugliest
slippers while going to the temple. People leave their footwear outside while
entering a temple or a Gurudwara,it is a sign of respect. I remember eating a
"Langar", with my shoes tucked inside my shirt. It was free food so I
had to eat and I was wearing my favorite shoes at that time. So I was in a
dilemma to leave the shoes outside or skip the free food. Leaving an
opportunity to eat free food is the biggest sin ever. So I improvised and
tucked my shoes under my T-Shirt, I was already very fat,So my belly coming out
unusually because of the shoes did not make much of a difference. Sorry getting
back to the point. I have shifted base to Melbourne now and occasionally on a
Sunday me and my friend visit a Gurudwara. So one fine Sunday evening I and my friend went to the Gurudwara and after
worshiping and eating Langar I returned to see my slippers missing from the
footwear rack outside. I was amused and my friend too. It was nostalgic, I mean
as if we were back in India for a moment. We looked around to see if someone might have kept it somewhere
else, but they were nowhere to be found. It is a rule that If someone steals
your footwear, you steal someone else footwear. But I preferred walking
barefoot to the car rather than getting abused by the supposed person's
slippers I would have been wearing.
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