“Almost” Busted

My close friends know that I’ve been running away from the traffic police for more than a year now! I keep escaping their motors and Fords at day, and evading their patrols at night. I didn’t do anything against the law if you thought so … it’s just (for reasons beyond the scope of this post) that I don’t have any kind of driving or car licenses :D

Seeing a police Ford roaming nearby means a lot of trouble for me. If I got suspected and caught, before getting my licenses, my car will be stopped and taken away by a creaking winch, which means bye bye to the car body and downside. Getting stopped by the police is not an option for me. I hope they don’t come in my pursuit if I didn’t make a stop at their sign one day :P

Today I was heading towards the technician to fix a problem with my car’s electrical wirings. Unluckily, I got stuck behind a wondering police Ford all the way from “dowwar el da5eleyyeh” to “el-dowwar el awwal”. I couldn’t move left or right, nor horn a long beeeeep like I usually do to old bumpy pickup trucks. I had to behave or else … “BMW ko7le soffele 3al yameen”.

Anyway, it took me almost 10 minutes to reach my destination, which was a car accessories place, and the police car was ahead all the way. I finally got to the place at the beginning of the Rainbow Street, and there … I faced a big surprise! The police Ford stopped exactly in front of the place!! They were also coming for a fix!!

6ab3an ana 7ammaret oo zarraget oo ba66alet 3aref esh a3mel. The police car filled the space in front of the building and I had to either move on or to stop on the other side of the street (mamnoo3 by the way). Moving on meant returning home, which I couldn’t do after coming all this distance, so I chose the later option, and waited for the police to finish their business praying to god they don’t get inspired to do something like “abol shabab lesh safef hek? a36eene ro5asak”.

El mohem, they were a tough twenty minutes I had to spend in my car, pulling on a confident look and trying to take a picture so that I can post about the thing :P. At the end, they moved on “miraculously”, not even having a single doubt that the freaking driver in the next car was an easy “catch” for a ticket!


Today was one of the discomforting nowadays of my driving. You can see how much of a problem traffic police became for me. Ironically, I used to like them and enjoy their stops during the first year after I got the driving license. I’ll post soon about some funny stories my friends and I had with the police :)