A Parrot Fortune

reading English version of fortune - very outdated, originally uploaded by alexandrafletcher.

We headed to Mamallapuram for the weekend to check out the Beach Temples. On Sunday all the Indian flock here to go the beach and experience the market stalls etc. We found an old man with a parrot in a box with about 30 little booklets lined up. You pay 10 ruppee and the parrot is let out and choose about 5 booklets from the row. This is your fortune spread. He opens the little booklet and hands you the English version of the particular fortune. I wish i could have photocopied it.. it was crazy. There was a lot of broken English with words such as 'fortune' 'wealth' 'money' littered throughout. I feel that is all the Indians want to see from their fortune. But at the end it said that happiness would be with me from Sept 2004 to October 2007. I let this indiscrepency go - i mean the guy was telling my fortune but....whatever. It somehow seems appropriate in a country that is stuck in some serious time warp. The men and their fashion especially.... moustache a must, tight long polyster pants with a flair and ALWAYS a shirt. They all look like 70's tV stars. Hilarious.
I guess the funniest thing was the crowd that gathered. You can't see from this photo but there is even a massive horse standing right behind me breathing down my neck.
Gotta love this place.