Let me share with you this incident. My friend really confuses me. He’s a very smart guy, very successful in his studies, yet one of his dreams is to drive a taxi cab.
I believe that he got this passion to drive a taxi car from Beirut (when we used to study there). Of course he couldn’t drive a taxi there, he’s simply not allowed to. Anyway, he called me 2 days ago and said “Guess what?” “what?” I replied. “my family leased a 12 seater bus for the company and I took it on Friday and went to Jileeb Shyookh area and looked for people who needed a ride!”
“Oh come on!You’ve got to be kidding“
“I swear I’m not making this up!” he replied.
“Okay tell me what happened?“
“Well I went to Jileeb Shyookh and saw a group of people from Bangaldesh, I asked them if they needed a lift and in a split second they were all in the Bus! They wanted to go to Hasawi(a place near Jileeb Shyookh). You see the problem is that I don’t know the way to Hasawi!! So I asked one of them for the directions, and the guy was like ‘who doesn’t know Hasawi?’ anyway, I told them that I’m going to charge you 200 fils and they didn’t actually mind, but when we reached our destination I turned back and told them because it’s a new bus I won’t be charging you anything!“
Aaaah my friend is very kind… “hehe you’re crazy!;p” I told him! He laughed and said “no wait.. I then saw a group of Egyptian men walking down the street, I pulled down the window and asked them, where are you heading?“
“To khaitan” they replied, “okay let’s go, 150 fils! They hopped in and we started chatting about several things. They turned out to be very respectful guys. When we reached khaitan I told them that this ride is for free, but they insisted on paying! I convinced them that this ride is for free because it’s their first time with me, however, I’ll charge them next time!”
That’s it!! It’s a dream come true, he became a taxi driver for a day!!
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FAH
November 16th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
LOL your friend is hilarious! And Hasawi is an area in Kuwait? Really??? Where is it exactly?
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November 16th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
LOOOLLLL!!! You made my day!!!!
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November 16th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
LOL that was my dream as well hahah i thought i was wierd! o i wanted to drive a wanait as well (the white small one) but im a girl fa fi a7lami
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November 16th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
LOOOL HE IS CRAZY
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November 16th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
WANAASA!!!! I wanna do that too!! I really do!! But I want the bigger bus.
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November 16th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
lol! great story and good to hear someone’s dream come true.
@ Ansam, Hassawi is in Jleeb area, go past Jleeb Police station and take a right at the round about, keep going till all the signs slowly turn from Arabic/English into Bengali and you’re there! :)
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November 17th, 2009 at 2:36 am
that makes me so haapy! i love when ppl help the expat labor workers as much as they can!
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November 17th, 2009 at 9:39 am
looooooooooooool
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November 17th, 2009 at 11:06 am
your friend rocks! good for him for doing something he really wants to do despite its eccentricity :)
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November 17th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Looool..funny, akheeran His Dream came true..
Aham shay ena He had fun :)
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November 17th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
LOOL way to goooo! i don’t see anything wrong with some fun adventures ;D
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November 17th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Ur friend is very modest and has a kind heart :D So now that he fulfilled this dream, he can move on to the next. Umm, a chef perhaps?
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November 18th, 2009 at 12:04 am
great post I enjoyed reading it :) and Your friend ibarrid ilchabd! lol makhalla shay ibkha6ra
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November 18th, 2009 at 12:43 am
I think ur friend needs a career coach, I think he has a few loose screws! Taxi driver! Out of all the embarrasing stuff u could possibly do, a taxi driver!!!!!!!!!!kafwik!
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November 18th, 2009 at 7:54 am
HTG reading your comment I think you might have a few loose screws, please explain whats embarrassing? He did what he wanted to do and i applaud him for that. As well he was helping people out, something im sure you think its beneath you. So before u say something stupid like that,use your head and think.
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November 18th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Inshallah m! I’m sorry walah ma3eedha, bas taxi driver , chinna fashla?
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November 18th, 2009 at 10:13 am
I studied in Beirut and I new one person who was fascinated by the concept or idea of driving a minibus taxi and I believe it is the same person that has been driving this bus in hasawi. The guy was nicknamed the “Bear” he would drive a famous route in lebanon from Za7la to Beirut, shouting at both points “Za7laaa Beirut, Beirut Za7laaa,” to attract innocent unknowing passengers. The story goes like this: The Bear would lure into his beat-up old minivan poor unsuspecting peasants of the side of the road promising a ride to their destination. However, some time deep into to the trip, he would suddenly roll up all the windows put on a gas mask and drug the passenger/s through the airconditioning ventillation system. He would then drive them to an old village where he would torture the passenger for days on end, keeping them alive, until at the very last moment, he would eat the victim bite by bite while he/she were still alive, hence the “Bear”! M! you should becareful before you go defending someone you dont even know, he might someday pick you up on the street to Hassawi! They say he can see the faces of all the victims he had eaten sometimes when he looks in the mirror! He is also a mixture of Beast and human, but more beast.
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November 18th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Look at his eyes in the picture, the driver, they’re psychotic!! Poor unsuspecting peasants!
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November 18th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Aww his dream finally came true! It’s a good one too.. :)
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November 18th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Fantastic! It seems he really enjoyed it! People would be surprised of how some people are when you get to meet them!
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November 19th, 2009 at 8:22 am
HTG – go to hell ! ;p
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November 21st, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Walak alfaroo! Hassa ani awareek!
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November 21st, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Your friend is awesome
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November 24th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
HTG: Eid this weekend. Lots of customers. Need bigger bus. Make it happen, i’m on standby to be the navigator again. We need authentic music this time, to match our personas as iraqi refugees. Kulsshee mabeeha , 3aini.
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November 27th, 2009 at 7:56 am
Goooood for him wala ! At least he did what he wanted to do !
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March 29th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
Since there are no more comments, it’s safe to admit finally that the guy in driver’s seat in the superbus…………IS ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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