..India turned into America:)
One of things that puzzled daughter at school was the fact that there were no toilets. She kept insisting that there were no toilets, and I kept telling her to ask her friends. I did not want to email the teacher about it. She was, after all, old enough to figure this out, right?
Turns out the toilets were called, ‘restrooms’. ‘But why?’, Asks a puzzled daughter, so I explained that what they are called in America. ‘But we are in India not America’!
Well, what do I say to that 🙂 And now, I notice ‘restrooms’ everywhere. I had a waiter look down snootily at me, when I asked for ‘the toilets’. Apparently toilets aren’t called toilets anymore 😦
All that I need now, is to ask for ‘queues‘. Not that most people seem to have a clue what it means anyway:)
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It’s always the little things in life, isn’t it? (smile)
It sure is 🙂
lol! yes, indeed people would be very clueless about those.
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and someplaces it is called ‘washrooms’ too 🙂 I guess ‘toilets’ are only tagged as it is in local restaurants or dhabas…otherwise yes the term has changed 🙂
No wonder I got snooty looks 😦
I’m amazed with the logical questions poohi comes up with 🙂 intelligent brat 😀
She’s six 🙂 Old enough to get logical 🙂
oh and queues? it will take another decade for the word to get it’s real meaning here in India,sigh!
🙂 That I can see 🙂
Really? Geez…I still refer to them as toilet or loo. Bet people are going to look down at me too… 😀
Same here – Toilet or Loo works. Restroom sounds so foreign!
ROFL !!!!
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Thank you for enlightening me Smitha 🙂
I guess thats what happens when we stay out of the country for a few years 🙂
lol!!! ‘queues‘ are an in thing in Mumbai. You should visit the Bus Stand near CST early morning. The discplined queue will surprise you. Ppl follow it and don’t allow others to break it too. When I had seen them I was kind of shocked!!!
the man who breaks the line is in huge trouble. she\he will get a verbal reprimanding from every one ! it is much needed — be a smarty pants ” (shana banta hai) some where else, not here goes the much common line
Very true! I guess it is needed, hai na?
Its wonderful if people do follow queues properly in Mumbai! I have heard that over all Mumbai is very disciplined, in comparison to other cities in India.
Hehehe 😛 😛
LOL!!! true.. in most of the places it become restroom 🙂
Strange but true.. toilets are out. I thought they were called washrooms these days.
A friend in the US once had a nightmare moment when her daughter was lost and she kept asking where’s the ‘lift’ was with people gving her blank looks because they knew only ‘elevators’! English, I tell you, is so strange.
lol @ the restroom incident. I think the loo is called by various names now, including washroom, all over India. Only in small hotels and dhabas, people still call it the toilet. 🙂
Yes, it would be great if Indians begin to adopt the other good practices of the Americans, too – including queues and professionalism in work. I wouldn’t mind some months-long holidays as well. 😀
Lol… Restroom it is these days… 😀
The biggest WTF moment for me was in uni here. People gave my friend a strange look when he asked for rubber. Apparently they understand eraser, because rubber is a word for condoms 🙂
and america turned india ! economically
Jeez…you Bangalore wala call them restrooms..we call them ‘toilets’ in this suburb of Bombay 🙂
Now that you have mentioned it, I do not remember the last time I used the word. 😐
I call them washrooms. Somehow, it has slipped it.
Yea restrooms and washrooms they are. Toilets probably sound cheap, hence the change. And we use queues and not lines here in Blr. I hope we don’t in future too. Good questions by Poohi thought, smart girl 🙂
I prefer to call it wash room .. It sounds better while asking – “Where is the wash room?” rather than “Where is the toilet?”
yes, i have too noticed it.. when i went to a restaurant and asked the waiter too, he too gave me that look.. and my mom from behind came to correct me saying Rest room restroom..:) so in case we need to find out things, we too have to learn the local language.. nope picked up language.. 🙂
he he he
Lol 🙂 a lesson for me too..Read your earlier post about coming back to UK. I don’t know how you do it girl, Moving again…