This is a story I heard from a co-passenger on my flight from Paro, Bhutan to New Delhi. I had met her the day before on my feeble attempt at the trek to Taktsang Monastry, which is amazing by the way. She heard the story from somebody else's guide in Bhutan and here I try to recreate the story as i remember it.
In Bhutan, you will come across many cows sitting on the roads, dogs walking along the roads-crossing them better than humans can and rarely will you see any goats around roads. God of course is omnipresent. This too like nearly everything else in Bhutan, has a story behind it.
Once upon a time, there was a bus going from some place to some place and there were three passengers on it- God, a cow and a dog. The goat did'nt have any money to get on the bus, so it was left at that some place.
The bus conductor asked all three passengers for money for their tickets. God said, "I will pay you when I get to the destination." The dog paid the exact fare, the cow paid more than the fare and was told to wait for change because God paid nothing and the dog paid the exact fare.
When the destination arrived, God simply vanished into thin air, the dog got off and the cow was still left without the due change. And so in Bhutan, God never pays His fare, dogs travel carefree as they pay the exact fare and cows are always waiting for their change.
wow
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