Experiences in Egypt: Part I

One liners and questions posed to us during our stay in Egypt:



1) Will you marry me?

2) My name is…? (When they are actually asking us our names :) )

3) Give me back my scarabs…(irritating camel owner in Giza)

4) Hind…hind…?? I know Amitabh Bachchan ….good very good..

5) You married?

6) You Muslim? Christian? (that's all they know….)

7) What is your age?

8) Where do you stay?

9) How many children do you want to have? (Officer handling my residence permit in the Security Department!)

10) Lady….do you want a horse…..10 pounds….okie okie…just 5 pounds…( at Giza)

11) You spik Arabik?

12) Takiwiy? (this is how they exactly pronounce it …and just about anyone in our resident café knows it)

13) Will you be my Brown Sugar? (our friends from Jamaica, Nigeria and Cameroon were subjected to such derogatory statements)

14) Chocolata..

15) Africa???

16) Samarra…

17) Pssst pssst …..(This is how they catch your attention. It is soooo slimy. Not just the vendors in the market. Everyone…even in the library…you can see them calling each other….ewwww…disgusting!!! )

18) Misriya? China? Japan? ( At Khan Khalili…trying to figure out what our nationality is)

19) Welcome in Egypt (not to Egypt)!!! (that's about the only good thing they say…almost everyone )

20) Zi bus has come (the lady guard informing us of the bus in the morning)

21) You haram (taxi driver, who was unable to literally "take us for a ride" in cairo)!