I have been back in the US almost a week and I feel like a foreigner in my own country. The appliances work so fast. I can't keep up with the toaster.
Whenever I shut off the TV, my daughter says "Current GONE!" We will keep that little effect going for a while.
In our brand spanking new development, there are signs that say "Raised Manholes." I kept looking for them and couldn't see them. Then the other day I noticed them - they are raised but they have paved a slope around these manholes so that when you drive over them, you won't feel a jolt. WOW! To paraphrase Crocodile Dundee - that's not a raised manhole, i'll show you a raised manhole!"
I miss the open manholes of Bangalore. I used to have to give a wide berth to a 4x4x4 foot gaping hole in the sidewalk at the intersection of 12th Main and 100 Foot Road in Indiranagar. When I first arrived, I was sure they would fill it in any day now...18 months later it is still reliably wide open.
In one neighborhood of Bangalore, where there is a home for blind people, "miscreants" were removing manhole covers - you can just imagine the twisted Tom N Jerry mindset of said "miscreants."
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