Ethos83

While at Emarat after work for coffee and a pack of cigarettes (don't get judgemental, it was too tempting to start smoking again in Austria and I swear I will stop this weekend).

A little Emirati girl about age 8 comes up to the bakeria counter while I'm waiting for the coffee, and asks ever so politely to the Filipina girl for one of the plastic cup covers.

The Filipina hands over the requested cover.

The Emirati girl beams and says very genuinely:

'Thank you!'

I kid you not. I was floored. Left my mouth hanging open in shock.

I don't think I've ever heard an Emirati thank a Filipina worker before...

Millhouse

Are you sure you heard correctly? She may have said "f uck you"

auzdafluff

seven seas

Yeah- amazing. Some arabs are humans after all.
Why don't you just **** off to whichever damp council flat you're from if you have such trouble adjusting socially?

Ethos83

Oooohhhh...I'm skeered.....

I did live in a damp boarding house at an expensive boarding school for five years if that helps.

seven seas

it explains the sneerign from behind the keyboard and delusions of superiority...

Ethos83

You only have that part right. I sneer in public and I have a very justifiable sense of superiority.

The whole point of sending me to boarding school rather than the perfectly fine local comp was to ensure the above. My parents were afraid I was becoming too egalitarian from living in the US.

seven seas

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn

Ethos83

What? Can't deal with a sense of humour?

Oh, that's right. It's already established you completely and utterly lack one.

Madam Medusa

oh, i always had you down as a brit...how wrong i was, eh...

MM, xx

Ethos83

Dual citizenship, darling. Half my life in one country, the other half in the other. My English can be messy sometimes.

Madam Medusa

that missing "u" is so telling...

MM, xx

Ethos83

Shall I scan my passport as proof?

Do you want it certified as well?

Madam Medusa

yep, feel free to pm if you don't want to share, lol...

MM, xx

seven seas

I decided to give yo a break before you started crying.