Cultural Stuff

The woman sitting behind me on the louage asked the man next to me to close his window. It seemed a little strange because it was a warm day and it was even warmer inside the crowded public van than outside. But she went on to explain that she was warm from doing house chores and didn’t want the cool air blowing on her. Everyone that heard her instantly knew what she meant, she was referring to the belief that you can get sick and even die if you quickly go from being hot to being cold. The people on the other side of the van hurriedly closed their windows without even being asked, and we all suffered through a warmer than normal trip across town so that nothing bad would happen to the warm woman.