Praise Be To Wasta!

An Englishman in Arabia:

I walk in and take a ticket from the machine. "Not bad", I think to myself, "only six customers to go." Really, I've lived here long enough. I should not be so naïve.

Time passes.

It becomes apparent why the only people sitting and waiting are all foreign workers. Anyone wearing a thobe and ghutra assumes that the ticket system is only for fools and foreigners. They all proceed to push in where ever they please.

Ah, the great Saudi system: queues and, in many fatal cases, traffic lights are for foreigners only.

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