{"id":8924,"date":"2015-01-26T21:15:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T14:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/?p=8924"},"modified":"2015-01-26T21:42:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T14:42:51","slug":"oops-they-did-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/2015\/01\/26\/oops-they-did-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops! They Did It Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, one last little photo essay \u2013 from Hampi, this time — featuring Indian peeps deliriously soliciting to have their pictures taken by me. In a new wrinkle, this batch also features a handful of shots not<\/em> the work of my own hand, but rather by a fine gent who commandeered my camera for a time and let loose with a bevy of his own.<\/p>\n

The fine gent in the first pic kept pointing at me and telling his little sister there that I was her uncle. There was also a little boy, on the train to Hyderabad, with whom I shared a berth and who kept calling me \u201cUncle\u201d all night long to get my attention and ask yet another in his endless line of mundane questions…<\/p>\n

The security screening at the Hyderabad airport, by the way, is a Brazil-esque comedy of contradictions and inefficiencies all wrapped up in the ridiculously British pomposity that has held over from the Raj. They make you show your boarding pass about a billion times, and more less empty out all of your carry-on luggage. Well, I had plenty of time, I guess. But when they wanted to confiscate my roll of duct tape, that was just going too far.<\/p>\n

\u201cMan, that shit’s expensive!\u201d I wailed in shock.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot…allowed,\u201d the guard sniffed officiously, continuing to go through my gear. When I asked to know why, he — after a long pause during which time he pinched even more stuff that had passed through all previous airports’ gates with nary a peep — permitted himself to pass along that it had been determined to be a possibly dangerous item. But then…he let me take it on board any old how — that’s how god a’mighty dangerous it was. Frickin’ weirdos.<\/p>\n

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