Saturday, August 25, 2012

Queue Jumping Saudi Women (Ninjas according to a westerner who was furious whilst standing in a queue)


Go ahead, go ahead, skip the queue whilst the rest of us simply laugh at you.Pathetic imbeciles!!! A few months ago whilst at the airport with my mom enroute to Jeddah, three fully veiled Saudi women decided that they were more important than the rest of us. They simply by passed the entire queue and went straight to the front of the line.Whilst many people in the queue were shocked beyond belief and clearly irritated, no body really went up to the counter to enquire about this preferential treatment. I was quite annoyed as we had been waiting in the queue for almost half an hour. So naturally I went up to the counter to complain. Instead of sending the women back into the queue, the Saudi gentleman at the counter decided that he would continue helping them and then help mom and I. It was quite evident that he did not have fantastic problem solving skills as his solution meant that mom and I would be jumping the queue as well. He signaled  mom and I to wait at the last counter to his extreme left  and then motioned his colleague to assist us.

Whilst in Medina a few days ago, mom and I were waiting in the queue to utilize the ATM machine. There was almost 15 people in the queue. Suddenly, out of nowhere a Saudi woman moves straight to the front of the queue and inserts her card into the ATM machine. I got out of the queue and went straight up to her. Then I asked her in Arabic if she is blind.Does she require a pair of spectacles? Can she not see that there are 15 other people waiting in the queue before her? After I created a scene the rest of the people in the queue also started shouting at this woman.I asked her to remove her card and move to the back of the line. The irony here is that when Saudis travel to Europe and the USA or outside of Saudi Arabia, they tend to respect the laws of that country and display exemplary behaviour. Why can't the same exemplary behaviour be adopted within their own country, towards their own people? This is something I fail to understand.