Now that the rains are here, these 5 things are in:
1. The Big 5 waterborne diseases: Dysentry, Diarrhoea, Gastro, Typhoid, Jaundice, and Leptospirosis. Contracted by eating uncooked food. Leptospirosis is contracted by ingesting dirty water that has rodent faeces mixed in it. God save you from them. I've lived through dysentery once and never again. Though in India, it's considered fashionable to tempt fate in order to gain immunity superpowers. People continue eating street food.
2. My OCD is not behaving: I may be able to coax my OCD at all other times, but rainy season, it just bosses me around like it's my manger or something. I have a contamination OCD but it's pretty manageable in the non-rainy months of the year. In the rains, everything is wet--soggy stuff on the roads, dog pee and poo mixing in the water puddles, fungus on walls, wet, rotting garbage, and the general sense that EVERYTHING is dirty. I try not to get out of my house, where everything is clean and dry (kitchens are a challenge...especially the garbage can).
3. Mosquitoes: Little buzzing buzzkills. Float like mosquitoes, sting like mosquitoes. They become so fat after a while that they can't even fly properly and just float heavily between your face and the phone screen.
4. Electricity drops: I have never understood why electricity cuts exist in the rains. In summer, overconsumption taxes grids, so electricity trips...I get that. But in the rains? Mystery.
5. Maids bunking: Housemaids who work for us bunk work more than usual citing flooded streets, illness and other such. My maid gets 2 days off in a month...it's the general rule out here. Even so, she will act extra when I call her, like she has been stung by a scorpion and is writhing in her sweat. She ain't winning no Oscar. I've told her in so many words: bai, no need to do all this drama. It's your rightful leave just inform me and take it. Still she persists.
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