I attract weird happenings. Period.

I was at a coffee shop with a friend of mine who is going to be in town till the end of next month. And we were just catching up. I was telling her about my mad nomad life for the past two years. And she was telling me about my old department. We had barely started talking when this tall girl approached us very politely and asked if I was Indian. And that was a start of a conversation that was close to half an hour long. She was thankfully neither creepy nor did she seem to have ulterior motives (like converting/saving me from going hell). She spoke about how she missed having Indians around and the Indian aunty in her neighbourhood who baby sat all the kids of the neighbourhood at some point or the other. She spoke about her Muslim father and how relieved he was that she hung out with Indian friends (especially in terms of food. Yes I experience this myself when my friends who look for halal see me eat something and decide that if I can eat it, they can too.). She also asked me and my friend whether we knew any places she could get her eyebrows threaded because she was only used to doing that since she was fifteen. And we had to break it to her that any 'beauty parlour' visits here were extremely (and pointlessly) expensive. Being the lazy person myself I couldn't help her too much. She had Malayalee friends at her previous work place and she was talking about how she missed them too (or was it just one friend?). Then she asked where she could get 'chai' and not the 'chai lattes' they sold at coffee shops. I told her about the usual Indian (Mughlai cuisine basically) place near campus where the tea is pretty good (although, again very expensive). I do eat at the place myself whenever I crave food and don't want to/can't cook myself. Ultimately this girl, coming from the South of USA, a person of colour, a person of different faith did not make the entire interaction as bad as it could have been if the person was annoying in anyway. But strangely enough, right after she left, we got up too because I wanted to show my friend around and we looked at where this girl should have been, but poof she was gone. Its funny these encounters I keep having. I intend to write about them all (well a lot of them make it to my diary atleast in bullet points or mentions) but I keep doing other things once I switch on my laptop (instead of blogging, which I enjoy when I do get down to it).

PS: My boiler/heater got fixed on Wednesday :)