“Ana mit-gow-ay-za….I am married!”
A useful phrase to know, when your prepubescent taxi driver starts telling you he wants to be your 'friend' because he realizes in the 5 minutes you’ve sat in his cab that “Inti I Love You”. I only wish I had known how to say this BEFORE embarking on this most eventful-yet-common activity of catching taxis in Cairo.
Seriously, all my stories seem to emanate from taxi journeys here!
Did you know? When entering a taxi with food in your hands, it is only polite to offer your driver a bite. Imagine the double take I did when I saw Omar offering his sandwich to our taxi driver one day. Am I selfish if I don’t want to do that…? Am I elitist for thinking I'm gonna get taxi driver cooties? Should I be shot?
3 comments:
Hey Farzina
I'm Egyptian & I've had my share of cab rides, no it's not selfish to not want to give him your food!!!
I never give them from my food & I never go close to them either, I'm also scared of catching cooties or worse fleas!!! (I'm alergic to fleas)
If I have food on me I keep it in the bag & eat it when I get off the cab or at home, coz I feel really uncomfortable eating with his eyes on me! (He might think that since you are eating something as expensive as McDonalds, for him, that means that you can afford paying him 10 pounds instead of 5!)
why don't you give me a call & lets meet up? I havent seen you or any of the trainees for the past 5 months!!!!!!!!!!
lol thats a relief, good to know another Egyptian feels the same way! :P
I don't have your number! and I'm not gonna put it on this blog for all to see lol - i dont know if you know Mustafa or NayNay from Alex - they have my number, give me a call! Do you ever come down to Cairo? We're having a christmas party on the 22nd, why don't come down for that? :D
Hey Farzina
hope you had a very merry christmas & a very happy new year :)
I got your phone number off Mustafa and sent you a Merry Christmas SMS but it never arrived, and THEN Mustafa tells me that you have another number!!!! hehehhehe
Anyway hope you enjoyed your vacation & hope your mom did too!!! :)
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