Thread of hope on the road
The global traveler might see a rather rare sight when they arrive in India. Some cars may have a small Lemon dangling in the front, right below the Bonnet. No, this is not to shift the center of gravity to some other position nor it is for a quick lemonade when the driver gets thirsty. It is to just ward off the evil eye. I am not sure how the Lemon wards off the evil eye, some research required here. You may also find some Green Chillies hanging or a combination of Chillies and lemon. What ever it is, I am sure it is for the same reason.
I must talk about what happened to my car when I had got it mint fresh. The first day I was all excited and wanted to take my dad around for a drive. Told dad that driving was a piece of cake and he got the courage to sit alongside me. I started the car and I had to reverse the car to take it out and right behind there was a Honda City. Before I knew it my car was kissing the other car. Talk about how magnetic Honda City was, the Fiat could not resist it. It took my dad three months before he sat with me in the car again.
Soon after this incident my bro took the car to his friend's house and it returned with a nice black thread hanging in the front. Yes yes readers are so clever they guessed it. It was a small rope to ward off the evil eye. His friend's mom had got it from a far off place for her son's car and ours (very sweet of her). After the first day's incident I doubt I can recall of any other incidents. With the kind of traffic on the roads of Bangalore, lemon, chilly or a small thread of hope is enough to hang on to. We need it.
I must talk about what happened to my car when I had got it mint fresh. The first day I was all excited and wanted to take my dad around for a drive. Told dad that driving was a piece of cake and he got the courage to sit alongside me. I started the car and I had to reverse the car to take it out and right behind there was a Honda City. Before I knew it my car was kissing the other car. Talk about how magnetic Honda City was, the Fiat could not resist it. It took my dad three months before he sat with me in the car again.
Soon after this incident my bro took the car to his friend's house and it returned with a nice black thread hanging in the front. Yes yes readers are so clever they guessed it. It was a small rope to ward off the evil eye. His friend's mom had got it from a far off place for her son's car and ours (very sweet of her). After the first day's incident I doubt I can recall of any other incidents. With the kind of traffic on the roads of Bangalore, lemon, chilly or a small thread of hope is enough to hang on to. We need it.
posted by Thanai at 12:42 PM
2 Comments:
Yeps 'Thread of Hope' to hang on to, for a long time I had been wanting Lord Ganesha's lucky charm for my car, till now I could not find the specific one that I wanted but now after this incident I am no more specific....just some lucky charm to ward off the evil eye or the bad luck ..on the 13th of Feb I was waiting in my lane as the light was red,
when a SUV making a left turn into the same road makes a sharp turn, skids and hits my car...it was snowing here , so he should have been more careful and driving slow...but with no fault of mine, my car got hit, sheer BAD LUCK....Luckily he hit the front of the car and not the door on the drivers side, so I was not hurt but then the car is still in the Auto Body shop and I will be getting it tomorrow or day after….,after I get my car back I want to take it again to the temple to do the car puja ..and put the lucky charm...I agree hope gives us a lot of peace ..
talking of different kind of lucky charms a few months back I saw this car which had a kids shoe hanging in front…very different to the usual one’s....
Hi Swati,
ur road is no better than Bangalore's then :).
Sad to hear about the car but I had a huge grin when I read about a Shoe being a lucky charm. Wow really cool.
I must say you should start a blog and post this story too about the shoe on the car as a lucky charm.
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