Incident #1
In the morning , I was sitting in class listening to powerpoint slide presentations my colleagues made. Then it was Mona's turn. Mona is a "Niqabi" which means she wears a Niqab, which is this thing : http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/Niqab-thumb.jpg
These women frankly annoy and provoke the hell out of me.
She started her presentation with the usual radicalist prayers and shahadas .. and opened the slideshow with a picture of a Mosque. Every few slides, there was a picture of a different mosque, which I thought was very irrelevant, especially that she was talking about polycystic kidney disease, not the story of how Islam was spread. There were also different animations on each page which made focusing really hard with ducks trying to jump out of the secreen and hearts crying or riding a bicycle. She ended with another chain of "doaa's" and thanked & praised Allah, the Almighty.
When the class was over and the last presentation shown (by the way, some of them had pictures of horses, others of sleeping babies, etc, which is very unprofessional in my opinion,) I approached her. I was a bit intimidated because I never spoke with a neqabi before. I asked her if I could transfer her presentation to my flash disk, and when it started I said "you know those images you added made the file size bigger so it'll be a bit slower ti transfer." She answered "bas mofedeen ya akh - they're helpful, brother" , to which I responded in my "Jean Luc" Lebanese dialect "enno la gurl ana ma asdy hole .. ana asdy holeeke sowar el jweme3 , enno come on man , ma 5asson bel mawdoo3,(i meant the mosque pictures)" her eyes ignited from behind that ninja thing she's wearing and said "Yageb ana nazkor Allah fee koll waqt ya akh (we should remember Allah at every time, brother" .. so i said "you know what, you didn't even include Al-Aqsa or the Prophet's Mosque in Madinah, how the heck will I focus on the presentation if all what I'm doing is looking at pictures of a mosque and trying to guess which one is it , 3asafra or sidi gaber , like in "man sayarba7 al malyoon?" and besides, in those short 10 minutes of your presentation, if I remember Allah i'll miss the important info you're providing" ...
The file finished transferring, I removed my flash disk and walked away ...
Incident #2
when I came back home, I called "Alex sporting club" to ask about tickets for the famous musician "Omar Khairat" who's performing there next Thursday. The man who answered was obviously chewing something in his mouth. I tried to ignore it and asked about the concert, and he said "gifjgfijobigie" .. I said "COME AGAIN" .. he said "Sold Out" in a very rude way like he's getting rid of me. I said "are you eating?" "YEAH I am" "this is no manners at all -
deh ellet adab - next time put your damn sandwich down before you answer the phone, because you are representing a respectable place and people will scorn this behavior" "hader ya basha, men ennaya" ... and I hung up ...
