You Can Go!

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Earlier this week, I was driving my car in al-Takhasosi St. with a friend of mine, when a police car followed me, and the officer inside it told me to pullover. I stopped my car, and did not get off, waiting for the police officer to, and wondering what I have done wrong. He came to me, and asked for my license and registration papers. I gave them to him.

He looked at them, and then asked me, “Where do you live?” I told him I live in al-Mohammadiya. “What is your job?” he asked, and I said I’m a student at KSU. “But the address on your license says ‘Hassa, Hufouf.’ How do you say that you live in al-Mohammadiya?” Here, I started to question the mental abilities of this guy. “Yes, I originally come from Hassa, the eastern region, but I moved here recently to study at the university,” I said.

“But the address here is not al-Mohammadiya, and you said you live in al-Mohammadiya,” he told me. I did not know how to respond to this, so I just repeated my last sentence. He told me to wait, and took my papers with him to the police car. After a few minutes, he came back, gave me my papers, and told me, “You can go, Allah yester 3laiyk.” He left, and I was like WTF?! He stopped me for no obvious reasons, wasted my time, and then left without even apologizing to me? Our police forces should really consider teaching their employees some manners.

7 thoughts on “You Can Go!”

  1. I can’t believe my eyes..
    did he say “Allah yester 3laiyk”!!!

    you see, a year ago I was in “elshargeya” coming back to khobar from the beach, late on a weekday night with some gals, when a policeman in a checkpoint stopped us and interrogated us then said “Allah yester 3laiykom”
    I was so offended, I thought it was a girl thing … I,e, you suspicous late at the beach girls need some “sitr” … Loool

    “Our police forces should really consider teaching their employees some manners” … every government agency needs to consider that!

  2. that’s unbelievable, you’re blog has seriously opened my eyes to the saudi culture… definitely will be coming back!

  3. Just this week I was reading about the Saudi economy and its culture in The Economist. Is it true that women still cannot drive there? Does this rule apply for the princesses too?

    I dont know if you already know this but since Kuwait in a recent legislation has allowed women to vote, in the entire Gulf, only Saudi Arabia is left to give women that democratic freedom. And hopefully it will happen someday soon.

  5. It has been really interesting to find and read about you blog! I am currently living in Kuwait so we’re neighbors! :) I hope you enjoyed your break and I look forward to reading more of what you have to say!

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