This happened quite some time ago, but I can find no post about it, so ….<\/p>\n
I am in a taxi downtown, sitting shotgun.<\/p>\n
We are winding our way through Midan Tahrir on our way north. This is one of the larger cluster f*cks traffic wise in this area.<\/p>\n
We are dodging buses, mini-buses, micro-buses, other taxis, car, motorcycles, scooters and the occasional intrepid pedestrian.<\/p>\n
A taxi pulls up next to us on my side of the car and the driver is holding out a 50LE note and yells “fi fakka?” (got change).<\/p>\n
My driver says “ay” (what?). I repeat what the other driver says.<\/p>\n
My taxi driver replies that yes he has change.<\/p>\n
The other taxi driver hands me the 50LE. We are still driving mind you. We are through the traffic circle and are heading north at this time.<\/p>\n
I hand the 50 to my driver. The taxis part like, well, the red sea, to go around some tourists trying to run across the road to the Egyptian Museum.<\/p>\n
My taxi driver rummages through his pockets and makes change for the 50. Which he hands to me.<\/p>\n
I wave to the taxi driver, he pulls his taxi close and I hand over the change. A chorus of “shokrun” and “ma salema” ensues.<\/p>\n
We go our separate ways.<\/p>\n
Another ordinary taxi ride in Cairo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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