Terlik

It is customary here to keep a basket full of slippers at your door to offer your guests when they arrive, since everyone removes their shoes upon entering the house. We have quickly taken to wearing house shoes around the house all day. We even found little slippers for Owen which are the colors of the local soccer team. Here is a pic of us in our terlik.


This leads me to a story my friend was telling me yesterday. They were expecting the cable guy to come between 5 and 8pm that evening. Instead they got a call at 10:50am that he would be there in 10 minutes. My friend had just finished mopping and had left her small girly slippers near the front door so that she didn't leave marks on the wet floor. A few minutes later, the cable guy rang the doorbell and entered the house. Without even hesitating he removed his shoes and stepped directly into my friend's slippers. He proceeded to walk all over the house with his toes squeezed into her fluffy slippers and his heels hanging out the back. She said the funniest part was seeing him standing on the roof in her slippers installing the satellite dish. I so wish I could see a picture of that!