Sept 27 2009 The Carp Goes Fishing

I’ve talked about Mr. BA (Buffalo Ass) and his wife The Carp on a couple of occasions before. Well not much has changed. He’s still assing and she’s still carping.

The rare few times I’ve met her she’s  been the most inquisitive type. One time I was going towards the car as we were going out for supper and she came running up to me asking where I was going and was I going to the bazaar and was I getting food there. There was no reason for this questioning other than maybe she felt out of sorts that I don’t take food from their restaurant much. I have only twice. It was good enough but I know they have so many cockroaches in there that I don’t trust the quality of the food. Every time they do any furniture shifting or cleaning our place gets over-run with the things so we have to do extra cleaning and spraying. They don’t spray to keep them away.

Normally this is fine as the weather is not conducive to large hordes of them but lately this has become a bit of an issue since the weather has been quite warm for quite a long stretch and they have been doing extensive cleaning in preparation for painting. They heard I had my place painted and of course one has to keep up with the Joshi’s  (that’s like keeping up with the Jones’es).

So again at the night of the Ram Lila that I was chief guest at (see most previous post) as I was making my way out and was somewhat dressed up she took the opportunity to attempt to question me again. She wanted to know where I was going. I said Ram Lila. She looked surprised as this is not generally a foreigner thing. Then she wanted to know if I was leaving Mussoorie in a few days. I said no. She looked surprised. I don’t know where she got such an idea from. She had a whole passle of other questions but Manoj drove up on the scooter and I jumped on as quickly as possible to get away from her.

I don’t know what her fishing expeditions are all about. I have nothing to do with her or her immediate family. If she spent half as much time attending to her own business as she does attending to others she’d probably be one of the wealthiest women in Mussoorie. But gossip is just so much fun I guess.