Smoke from the gas truck fire, taken at our compound gate.
Can you stand more traffic stories? Again, everyone is OK.
Yesterday (Sunday, Feb. 22) afternoon a truck delivering gas to a gas station overturned and exploded in a major intersection close to the American School. Don't really know if anyone was hurt - hope not. They heard the explosion at school and went into "lock down" until they got the details. I was just about to leave for school (had Girl Scout Thinking Day) when a friend called and told me what had happened. Good thing she did - I didn't panic when I saw the smoke and I knew which way to go to avoid the backed up traffic.
Earlier in the day a Qatari started tailgating me (white Land Cruiser, young guy in white robe - the typical Qatari). I was in the left lane and he was so close I could only see his face in my rearview mirror. Traffic was heavy and I couldn't get over. Picked up camera - turned it on and pointed it back at him. (After what happened to Andy I wanted a video of him doing this - in case he back ended me). He backed off, I saw an opening and moved to the right. He came up beside me - I pointed camera at his car (often times they will then pull in front of you and slam on their brakes - if he did it I wanted it on camera). He sees camera and takes off - OK problem gone.
Oh no, I go up the road a bit and see him in the far right lane, going very slow. I get in right lane behind him- I want to go right into the mall. He goes slower - I go around him and pull into the mall parking lot - wanted to see if he would follow. He followed me - I went through mall parking lot and pulled back out onto main road - he followed (not tailgating, just following). I picked up my phone and put it to my ear like I was calling someone. I moved into left turn lane - he kept going straight - guess he figured I was calling the police and since I had him on camera being a jerk he would go be a jerk somewhere else. If he had kept following me I would have driven to the Embassy.
Leaving here in July - Never returning.
3 comments:
O M G !!!!!!!!!! Again, I can't wait until you are home. I guess the moral of the story is you should never travel without a camera and cell phone close at hand!
What an asshole! Maybe I should start filming people around here... would they use their turn signals then???
Home SOON!!! You all are welcome to plot here for a bit while waiting for your house to be available again if you want.
From now on will have camera and cellphone sitting right beside me!
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