Picnic and Hospitality!

The event I am going to narrate may be a trivial one, but it had a lasting impact on me! Last Sunday we were going on a departmental picnic. Half way to the spot few guys got a call of nature and stopped the bus. Its common here to just release yourself in any wide-open area. So it was no new thing. However, I marked that after those two guys many more followed the trend. I got curious and went out to follow the trend as well. Coming out, I was surprised to mark that there was no sweet wide open space in sight! So I just followed the flow of familiar faces. That took me to a narrow lane with houses on both the sides. I felt a bit scared! Finally I asked one guy where is the wide-open space? He directed me to a house! I felt very awkward. He understood and told me to use the lavatory of one of the houses! I was quite surprised, and to check it myself I ventured in. To my surprise no one told me anything. The house-owner, who was brushing teeth, just tried to smile at me with his mouth full of froth! I released myself and came back. All through I was wandering what type of people these are! Allowing a bunch of stranger to use your lavatory is something which one can never hope to come across in any country. And in the Indian-heartland this issue becomes really impossible because of caste-issues. But here is a corner of my country where people are still open enough to open their lavatories to complete strangers!!
(PS: A complete stranger is one whom you may expect to meet never again in the future!)