When Being Right Is Wrong
Work Deadlines + PMS + Traffic from hell + Running Late =
Driving down Gameat El Dowal St. batkhanek m3a deban weshy (fighting wiz ze flies of my face)- there's no way to translate that except basically picking fights with anything that comes my way.
It seemed that all the morons in the country were in Gameat El Dowal that day driving or crossing the street and in my way. If my temper that day could take form, I would've looked something like Cruella DeVille with Don King hair.
I finally made it to the right turn after getting through what seemed to be an eternity and from 6th of October City to Mohandessin, when just when I was about to take the turn, Mr. Hyundai in front of me decides to stop. No flasher, no signal, no wave, nothing.
I wait for about a second, maybe he's dropping someone off. No one gets out. I honk my horn. Maybe he'll wave in apology and someone will get in. No one gets in.
Smoke was coming out of my ears long before I reached this turn, so, I hold my horn down in rage. He's holding the whole lane up.
Nothing.
I bypass him and find a zabet (police officer with the mental capacity of a humming bird) about a meter ahead. I really want the guy to get a ticket. I stop to complain.
Me: "Law sama7t, yaani yenf3a 7ad yewakaf el shar3a kolo keda? (Excuse me, but is it OK for someone to just hold the whole street up?"
Peanut Brain Police Officer: "la tab3an ya fandem. ma yenf3ash khales. (Of course not, not at all.)"
Me (gloating the way tattletales in KG do): "Mesh mafrood yet3akeb da?" (Shouldn't he be penalized or something? )
Him: "Ah tab3an ya fandem, bas el lewa mestany 7ad. hayerkab we yemshy 3la tool. (Of course he should. But the General is waiting for someone; once he gets in, he'll leave.)"
Ahh.. the land of kosa (big-shot gets his way, even if it means stepping all over everyone else). How could I forget?
At this point, I shake off the impulse to remake Michael Douglas's movie Falling Down and take things into my own hands. I hold my breath, nod and drive off.
I guess we'll see who screwed who at my next license renewal when I have to pay off my next lot of tickets.
...and my Mommy told me it serves me right! :(
posted by Mumbo Jumbo @ 2:17 PM
8 Comments:
Speaking of which, nothing ever goes right in this country.. I'm still pissed off at that incident where egyptians are casually bitten by a saudi prince's dogs in their homeland!! Everyone with money and power gets away with almost anything..
What's the story on that? Were those the pitbulls owned by the Prince that was staying at Movenpick Madenet el Entag?
I saw those pitbulls there before that incident, I think there were 4. Pitbulls are known for snapping, so I couldn't believe a hotel would put people and especially children at risk out of fear from a prince!
Tell me the story, I just heard the headline. I wish I would've done something.
I remember once while in egypt going some where in heliopolis and we spend an hour and a half in the car not moving, literally, then we found out that the president was passing. Pathetic.
Hey mumbo, I wrote a post about this which describes it briefly but was more of a commentary here .
Anyway, very briefly, those pitbulls were owned by the Prince, he has 16 of them, 90 police reports were filed, 85 I think were silenced using pressures and threats, he's been kicked out of Tunis and the Hilton, the police continue to take no action against him. His bodyguards beat up hotel security and sometimes the inmates at the hotel.
The dogs attacked a little girl a few weeks back and she was about die and attacked another young man while he was playing football.
That's very brief really, the rabit hole goes deeper.
If Hosni and Suzanne DID have to wait in traffic, if they had an unfixed sink hole on their street, if there was smoldering rubbish outside their front door, if people in their family ate foul three times a day...things might actually get done, change might actually happen.
Cairogal, if all this happens to hosny and family then I suspect things would have already been done and some changes would have already taken effect.
And by the time they reach this state they will have no power to make a change anymore..
What a headline: "Insane woman with insane hair goes attacks general on Gameat El Dowal. Police is investigating possible links to Mossad."
Good one.
yeb2a enta akid Akid f msr..seriously this happens NOWHERE but here!
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