Post #117480 by Tiki-bot on Fri, Oct 1, 2004 10:50 AM

While in college lived in the guest cottage of a large estate and had a small ceramic tiki hanging on the wall outside my door. One day I came home and found it broken in pieces on the ground. It was securely attached to the wall, so it was highly suspicious, especially since the owners never came near my front door. The landlady was a hard-core Christian and had asked me about the idol before and had a sort of sour look on her face whenever she spoke of it. She admitted she had accidentally knocked it off the wall and was sorry, but I always thought she knocked it off on purpose. Funny how some people take things so seriously, but I guess that's the nature of religion. I have far more issue with people who think tiki has to do with keg parties and Jimmy Buffet. That, more than anything, is why I gave up trying to explain tiki to people.