Things you find in the lake!?

winni wanderer · 10-04-2009, 09:07 PM

This weekend we happened to rent to a nice Indian family. Not knowing much about their religion we made a terrible mistake. It all started with a boat ride, or so we thought it was going to be a boat ride. Walking down the dock we noticed in the water what seemed to be a Mcdonalds bag. So we hopped on the boat and drove over to the bag to retrieve it from the lake. Thinking the worst of our Indian friends for having littered in the lake.It turns out it was not a Mcdonalds bag at all. It was " Lord Ganesha" If your not sure what this is like me (until I researched it) i will tell you. It turns out this weekend I think is the Hindu Holiday known as "Ganesh Chaturthi". This holiday it turns out requires them to create a clay statue 2 to 3 months prior to this holiday of "Lord Ganesha" which gets paraded thru town and you got it ......GETS THROWN IN THE LAKE. So here we are fishing this Deity/statue out of the lake thinking its a Mcdonalds bag. Having reached in the water to retrieve it I soaked my shirt sleeve. So I took my shirt off. So now I'm standing on the boat no shirt holding "Lord Ganesha". Noticing that my girlfriend is wearing a turtleneck under her sweatshirt I asked her to let me wear the turtleneck until my shirt dried. She obliged by lifting up her sweatshirt to remove her turtleneck and ducked down further to remove the turtleneck.so here we are me with no shirt holding "lord Ganesha" and my girlfriend with her shirt up over her head and what do I see but the nice Indian family looking out the window at us. "WANT TO GET AWAY" We had no idea until we researched this what we had done. Is there anybody out there who knows more about this holiday and what should we do with "Lord Ganesha" now? Do we throw him back in as protocol my suggest or is that littering the lake. What do we do? Things you find in the lake.

10-04-2009, 09:07 PM	#1
winni wanderer Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 24 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Things you find in the lake!? This weekend we happened to rent to a nice Indian family. Not knowing much about their religion we made a terrible mistake. It all started with a boat ride, or so we thought it was going to be a boat ride. Walking down the dock we noticed in the water what seemed to be a Mcdonalds bag. So we hopped on the boat and drove over to the bag to retrieve it from the lake. Thinking the worst of our Indian friends for having littered in the lake.It turns out it was not a Mcdonalds bag at all. It was " Lord Ganesha" If your not sure what this is like me (until I researched it) i will tell you. It turns out this weekend I think is the Hindu Holiday known as "Ganesh Chaturthi". This holiday it turns out requires them to create a clay statue 2 to 3 months prior to this holiday of "Lord Ganesha" which gets paraded thru town and you got it ......GETS THROWN IN THE LAKE. So here we are fishing this Deity/statue out of the lake thinking its a Mcdonalds bag. Having reached in the water to retrieve it I soaked my shirt sleeve. So I took my shirt off. So now I'm standing on the boat no shirt holding "Lord Ganesha". Noticing that my girlfriend is wearing a turtleneck under her sweatshirt I asked her to let me wear the turtleneck until my shirt dried. She obliged by lifting up her sweatshirt to remove her turtleneck and ducked down further to remove the turtleneck.so here we are me with no shirt holding "lord Ganesha" and my girlfriend with her shirt up over her head and what do I see but the nice Indian family looking out the window at us. "WANT TO GET AWAY" We had no idea until we researched this what we had done. Is there anybody out there who knows more about this holiday and what should we do with "Lord Ganesha" now? Do we throw him back in as protocol my suggest or is that littering the lake. What do we do? Things you find in the lake.