Thread by @veekay122002

Me and my wife visited a Mahadev Temple close to where we are staying in Kochi. We both had the traditional tilak , ash and chandan on our forehead that is given by the pujari at the temple. My wife on the way back told me that she wanted to.pick up few essentials 1/n

For the house we are staying like small utensils etc and wanted to go to a supermarket .I said we should stop by a small kirana store so that ppl like us can lend a helping hand to the local store during these difficult times .After driving around a bit ,we stopped at a small 2/n

Store that we saw. The owner(50s) of the store was busy setting up his store. Me and my wife wore the traditional temple attire of veshti and mundu. As we walked towards the shop he stared at us as if he is seeing some extra terrestrial creatures walking up to his shop . 3/n

It looked as if he did not enjoy us walking into his store at all . To put it very simply , both me and my wife could feel the heat of his state and hate . We kept wondering why is this hate . What did we do wrong. ? We asked for the stuff we were looking for and he quickly 4/n

Realized that we might spent a sizable amount in his store and seemed to time down or rather managed to hide his hateful stare a bit . Both me and my wife exchanged few glances at each other in wonder . I kept wondering why ? Why ?5/n

After all I house stopped by the near by reliance store and picked up our stuff and I expected a trouble from my wife for having forced her into this situation . I displayed no animosity , hurriedly paid the bill and on the way out wished him to have a nice day. But the stare 6/n

Was back on his face . That's when I noticed that he had his veshti the other way opposite to the way I had and basically did not like two kafirs walking into his store early morning probably ,specially openly displaying our religious identity. But why this hate ? 7/n

Who is responsible.? We both discussed the matter as we drove away. There was no other reason than that for that shop owner to respond to us the way he did. I just made up my mind that I will display my religious identity much more openly henceforth. Keep wondering who is 8/n

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