(That is as close as I can come to the phonetic spelling. The “!” is a glottal stop.)<\/p>\n
If you ever move to Egypt, bring passport style photos with you.<\/p>\n
Lots <\/strong>of them.<\/p>\n We had 6 taken, each. Those were gone by the 2nd day. We thought that was an insane amount of pictures. “Why would you need that many”. After being here a week (wow, 7 days…) we realize “ya know, 24 photos probably would have been a good idea”<\/p>\n Anyway, we were at the bank opening an account for Kaddee’s salary deposit and getting ATM cards. They require a passport photo. We had a block of six. They were in a square and needed to be cut apart. We asked for a scissors.<\/p>\n “fii ma!assh?” (“Is there scissors?”)<\/p>\n “Mafiish ma!assh” was the response. “There are no scissors”.<\/p>\n I wasn’t sure I was understood or that I understood the response.<\/p>\n “Mafiish ma!assh?”<\/em><\/p>\n “Mafiish ma!assh”.<\/p>\n There are no scissors.<\/p>\n I showed the nice lady the photos and she said “ah, ok give to me”<\/p>\n I figured, “ok, they don’t give out the scissors she will cut one out of the block for me”<\/p>\n No. She took the block of photos and very slooowly and carefully tore one photo from the block and then did the same with Kaddee’s photo.<\/p>\n I should have offered to go around the corner to the guy selling the handguns. I think I saw a pair of scissors in the pile..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (That is as close as I can come to the phonetic spelling. The “!” is a glottal stop.) If you ever move to Egypt, bring passport style photos with you. Lots of them. We had 6 taken, each. Those were gone by the 2nd day. We went to a photo shop to have more taken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWe went to a photo shop to have more taken and the minimum number that they would sell you was 24 photos.<\/p>\n