Catsup and Tabasco sauce

When I order Fettuccini Alfredo, they bring both catsup and Tabasco sauce. I told the waiter tonight, I said 100% of people don’t put that on this. I still don’t know is Miguel understood. It is always very obvious to me when people serve me food and it is something they have never had, they can’t tell when it is wrong.

Alright, the big story to report is the Jerry Zelko came to town and we made contact. That is where this story stops being good and just turns on a dime.

Jerry can take naps mid day, and do things like that, I work till 7 lately and there are no naps. We touch base at 7 at night and he wants to go to the Gold Souq. Fine, unless you live here. That is the traffic nightmare and actually the part of town where all the labor lives. Are there are tens of thousands of them.

Well he took a cab, I said fine, even though he forgot the Tapatio, I was going to meet up. So I took the back way, roads I am using on the weekend because I live in the middle of the Burj City construction site, which is bigger than the University of Minnesota.

So I get home and throw down a Laughing Cow and Salami micro-waved wrap and hit the road. Well a guy named Hussien Gaber Ahmed is stopped at the light ahead of me, why do I know his name and the fact that he is from Egypt, well because he promptly puts the car in reverse and bangs into me. Boom. He missed a right and there was a triangle curb to our left so he wanted to back up and make that right, well, I was there.

All car accidents must have a police report. I drive a rental, and all scratches on the car, even if it is me scraping the wall all by myself, requires a emergency # call so there is a police report so when I return the car I don’t pay the FULL accident reimbursable payment that I get back if I do not get in an accident.

Well Hussein was talking a guy to the airport and he had to go. So I took down the info and called the cops. Then I realized that the insurance for the rental is back at my apartment. So I call off the road meeting and meet the guy at a police station. I got lost going to this place, it was in a part of time I was not aware of. Anyway, I get there 2 hours later and we sit down. Hussein is honest and mellow. We finally get into an office with the cop. All Arabic conversation breaks in, I let it go for a minute, then the cop says in English, “what happed.” I was ready and I did what I never usually do, I said as little as possible and only what was necessary. “We are both not moving at a red light, and he put it in reverse and hit me.” There are more details than that but I just shut up. Another 3 minutes of Arabic back and forth. More cops come in, some strange dude I still don’t know why he was there or who he was. So I finally say excuse me, what is happening and the cop says “It was his fault.” Bingo. That is all I needed to know because in the Dubai every accident between two cars has one ting in common, some gets the red slip and some one gets the green slip. Red, you are at fault, green you are not. I got the green one. When I give that to Hertz it is out of my hands. So no more phone calls, no trips to court, it is over.

The best part was while the cop was doing the paper work, they asked us if we wanted tea, I said sure, and the Egyptian guy did not understand “sure” but the cop did. Glass cups, glass saucers, and a guy walked it with it on a serving tray. And it was good tea.

Well I took a tour of my gym down stairs. Photos soon. And the Badminton court. It is like two basketball courts without hoops. Both just empty. Now that I have seen it I need to start to use it. I am buying close I need to be fit to where, so it starts.

I bought a wireless router so I can have a lap top in the kitchen when I cook, in my bedroom and bedtime, etc. Live large. (And I bought a mini Mag Lite too. Radical.)

I am watching the Fashion Channel right now. It is just really thin chicks walking. When I got home it was a tour of Tao Lam (no idea) and chicks in bikinis. It is my new favorite channel in the UAE. I just mute it. I mean the channel is almost cooler without sound. This channel is like cartoons for adults in one respect. I literally get a new lady every couple of seconds. I mean that is really short attention span requirement. And it never stops. Every once and a while you get a great boob shot and they always do the toe to head shot, which is nice. I can zone out and just watch beautiful women walking. Whoa. We are in Italy now… nice dress, she’s hot.

Emily, if I concentrate I might actually learn something and retain the names. I promise to try.

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Ya know, a few years ago, taking a photo of your TV and not seeing a horizonal line was next to impossible. But it is the 21st century now.

Left, channel promotion, right, radom shot of "Valentino, Behind the scenes, Paris 2008" or something like that.