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23 March 2008

Two people walking near IGMH today

Around 5:30pm near IGMH I waited on my Wave 100 for a friend. Golden light rays of the setting sun reflected off the gray pavements of Male' lighting up the dust from the ongoing traffic when my gaze focused on two elderly men in their late 40s walking towards me. They were engaged in a viscous conversation. One person was wearing a checkered gray and black short-sleeved shirt untucked and a dark brown trouser. The other a red t-shirt and a similar trouser. Their clothes looked reasonably worn out and desaturated possibly due to the quality of the materials, the detergent (or no detergent) the purity of water used for washing them and extended periods of exposure to bright sunlight. They were both engaged in each other deeply. From the few words I heard it seemed like a conversation about another person who lives with them.

They went past me I had my gazed locked on to them when the guy wearing the checkered shirt stopped in front of a house with a blue wooden door and cleared his nose with one swift motion of the thumb and index finger of his right hand. The mucus that came out was thrown near the blue door. The conversation continued with it's flow and the two people walked on.

My friend came out and we left off on the Wave like a wave.

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2 Comments:

At 3:09 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

cleaning the nose on the street and spitting on to the pavements with red saliva is very common among dhivehins

 
At 8:27 PM , Blogger Hidden Treasures said...

Interesting. You are mostly on the move. As for nose diggers, if you count the number of people enjoying this favourite pastime on an evening ride on your wave, it will go over hundred. Just be careful not to get in the way or onto it.

 

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