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2005-10-02 Arabia

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Posted by classer 2005-10-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yewbetcha. Expats - look for the little grey Hyundai Sonata with the windows cracked 2 inches all around and the sun screen that looks like Wayfarers - it's unlocked. Coffee's in the thermos (Seattle's Best Tazza D'Oro or Starbucks Gold Coast, alternating daily) with a stack of cups in the back. Coupla Bics in the console. I do the Dr Pepper cycle - except on zatar Wednesdays. See you there.

Posted by .com 2005-10-02 01:59|| 2005-10-02 01:59|| Front Page Top

#2 LOL - no doughnuts?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-10-02 11:00|| 2005-10-02 11:00|| Front Page Top

#3 When are the infidels gonna start their Ramadan offensive?

Posted by ed 2005-10-02 12:09|| 2005-10-02 12:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Heh, we some of us did our level best to be offensive year-round. For example, that was why I kept my beard - 14" long off the chin - cheeks shaved clean. It confused 'em cuz to them it has (religious) meaning. To me it was just chin hair. They couldn't be sure I wasn't a mutawa disguised as an infidel. Used to scare the slave-labor PakiWaki guys half to death - I got a cacaphony of "sala'am alikums" when I walked past one of the buses that shuttled them between purgatories, loading or unloading in the Aramco parking lot. Felt kinda bad about them for, oh, a month or so. Then I didn't, anymore. Similar confusion on kids' faces at the malls. Heh.

Posted by .com 2005-10-02 12:21|| 2005-10-02 12:21|| Front Page Top

#5 That's downright evil, .com.

I think I'm in love. ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-10-02 15:10|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2005-10-02 15:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Lol, ya tease! For the first coupla years I kept it perfectly manicured - sorta like a Col Sanders on acid thingy - or the kind of beard Ho Chi Minh would like to have had, lol. The only rational comment I got from a Saudi "friend" was from one who had just returned from a one-year assignment in the US - SF, of all places. In our first conversation, outside for a smoke in what little shade could be found - the main reason Saudis chatted expats up, in fact, he asked me if I had ever been in ZZ-Top, heh. Later, he said I scared most of 'em - they couldn't figure it out and didn't want to guess wrong, in case I was a zealous convert, lol! So I kept it - even when it topped 130Â°F.

Posted by .com 2005-10-02 15:48|| 2005-10-02 15:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Good grief - I thought you'd mistyped and meant 1/4" ;)

It does put the operations of the mutawa guys into stark relief though...

Posted by Tony (UK) 2005-10-02 15:57|| 2005-10-02 15:57|| Front Page Top

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