Owais Mughal
This notice board is from Food Street, Lahore. It reads:
“Entering the ‘Food Street’ wearing shorts is strictly prohibited: Food Street Administration”
Among other things on this notice board, I enjoyed reading the word sakht (strictly). As if the word forbidden didn’t sound serious enough, the administration had to add a prefix strictly forbidden to make sure people undrestand that administration means business here.
Credits: I found the above photo in rooq’s collection at Flickr.com.
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request to ATP: Please dont use provocative pics on the title page, like gulab jaamuns. where i am living, its really a battle to get them and i always start feeling hungry when i see them…
haha this is funny.
i wonder whether it has to do with some incidents they had or something else.
btw, muslims wear shorts during prayers as well, provided they cover the knees. So it cant be a religious thing here.
@MZ Khan.
well they have to accommodate roshan khayals as well, otherwise they start crying taleban are coming :)
I agree that the rule is absurd; however, a private restaurant can institute any dress code it wants and the rule is rightly comparable to those of exclusive clubs.
(I would have liked to hear the discussion and arguments that led to the rule though !)
Actually I agree with the ‘giving respect to Lahories’ and vendors bit. A lot of restaurants around the world have dress codes… some silly, some useful. You can ‘dress up for dinner’, it’s not a bad thing. Just like we would not be going to a 5* hotel for breafast in our pyjamas, maybe its a good thing that there are some rules in Food Street as well.
If someone went without even shorts, wouldn’t they mind even more? :)
jajjay — agree with you — and with ahsan as well
daktar — stop being disingenous — of course this has to do with religion — it’s not coming from the punjab club but from the food street administration –
To JayJay:
Only those men scratch their … who don’t wear under wear! Most men in Pakistan don’t wear anyway!