Re: Khatar Patar in the kitchen for what?
Since the end of May/beginning of June, two families have been staying with us. One is an Indian Sikh family, and the other Pakistani. Both families have gone through some serious personal upsets which have left them homeless, and kipping at mine. So you would expect that this coincidence/commonality would make them more tolerant and supportive of each other.
Instead, there are skirmishes over small things (I’ll go into further detail if it’s of interest). Relevant to this thread, one of the points of contention was breakfast.
Indian uncle likes to eat at 5.30am on the dot. He and his wife would do the whole khatar patar in the kitchen. Their khatar patar included making the fire alarm go off. That time of morning I’m out for a run so I was initially unaware of the kerfuffle.
On the fourth morning I return to find the two uncles facing off. One yelling, “Meri neend tabaah kardi” and the other replying, “Ki karda pokh lagi si.”
So I started waking up just before 4am to fit in my run and be back in time to make Indian uncle’s breakfast, quietly. Now you know why I am on the side of the host 