Are you being watched?

June 20, 2008 | Filed Under confessions 

Something exciting happened in my life today. I came out of my house and was locking the door - when I noticed that there is a cross marked above the doorbell button. I don’t think it was there yesterday.

I immediately thought it was the newspaper guy - he has been giving me newspapers for the last 2 months but hasn’t taken money yet. I haven’t been avoiding or anything - he probably has come around the time when I haven’t been around.

I decided that I should see if anyone else has this marking. Gautam, one of my friends who was over - immediately recommended erasing it. It seemed like some weird shit to him. There are 6 flats on my floor, and only two had the crossed marking.  One more had a tick - like the Nike swoosh. So there is something on for sure. The other crossed mark house is of a muslim. I guess all the muslims on the floor are marked with crosses. I wonder what the tick is about though.

Maybe it is coincidental, but I am planning to check markings on all the floors to see if there is some pattern. I hope there isn’t. It does not do justice to a city, I am beginning to love.

I have half a thot and marking all the houses with crosses - like Marjina did in Alibaba and Chaalis Chor.

Comments

9 Responses to “Are you being watched?”

  1. Shashi on June 20th, 2008 5:01 pm

    That mark was there the evening we visited you.

  2. sheece on June 20th, 2008 5:07 pm

    I guess, I didn’t notice it before then.

  3. Sana on June 21st, 2008 9:42 am

    Don’t erase them. They come back. I’ve tried.

  4. Altaf on June 21st, 2008 1:52 pm

    This is scary shit! Investigate. And I like your idea of marking all houses with a cross. If you can’t make them see sense, confuse them.

  5. sheece on June 21st, 2008 2:01 pm

    @Altaf
    There’s a chance that one is dealing with passionate fanatic fools and not with thieves with a moral character, so it could make things worse.

  6. prashant on July 18th, 2008 11:21 am

    hi sheece hope your doing fine

  7. Shruti on July 20th, 2008 10:46 pm

    Sheeeece.. that’s scary!! It’s been a month.. what’s the result of your investigations?

  8. Deepika on July 21st, 2008 10:16 pm

    This is making me very cross X-(

  9. Kripa on August 10th, 2008 2:08 am

    Haha :-) It’s either census or polio vaccine people. They mark houses and often scribble numbers below the crosses and ticks. Just thought I’d let you know in case you hadn’t figured it out yet.

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