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Sunday, 5 September 2010

Nul point for Indian Flip flops

So off on a walk around the leafy suburb of Chattarpur farms on a Sunday afternoon. Tara happily walking down the roads which were quiet except for when we woke the sleeping dogs and there were a lot of them.We came across two litters of the most adorable pups. She was attacked not by an Indian stray this time but by a male Labrador. Charles and I both carry sticks to protect Tara and luckily his guards quickly pulled him off her.
Off we went again and on a slip of a bit the bright green Indian flip flop came acropper. The rubber just sheared off the foot side and left us with a useless flip flop half way into our walk.
He gallantly took his off ( reminds me of one of the reasons why I married him)  and gave them to me and he walked back barefoot on uncomfortable surfaces full of shingle, while regaling me with the interesting fact that the advent of flip flops led to a reduction of hook worm incidents in the world because the poor people had some cover on their feet which prevented the worms from breaking through the skin on the soles of their feet.(another reason why I married him )
So NUL POINT for Indian flip flops which lasted barely a week. We laughed at the possibility of putting one Kenyan and one Indian together but unfortunately the damaged ones leave us with two lefties.

1 comment:

  1. what a fun and unexpected surprise to run into you two yesterday! so sorry about those damn flipflops!!

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