Friday, October 14, 2011

Featured Photo: Please Use Other Door


Yes. This is what you think it is. This is a door serving as the walkway to a door. It's hard to see in this picture, but the door is spanning a small ravine that I assume was dug to make way for pipe or wiring or something. This is such a common sight in Saudi Arabia.


Not that it's common to see doors on the ground, but to have a giant ditch in the middle of a sidewalk and a ridiculously narrow "walkway" put down across it is the typical modus operandi around here. I guess the city doesn't provide those steel plates or a temporary walkway like you see in more developed civilized Western places, so the businesses are left on their own to figure out a solution. I dunno, but it definitely provided some laughs for us tonight.

"Let me get the door for you!"

This kind of thing would have totally baffled me last year. Now I just whip out my camera and snap photos because this is the kind of stuff that happens in Saudi Arabia that is so hard to describe.


Enjoy.

Vicariously yours,


2 comments:

  1. are those toes I see peeking out from under that abia? Did you get repremanded for that? Or is it ok now?

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  2. don't think I like the new blogspot format- did you change your background or is it a site change?
    BTW, didn't notice @ first your hair isn't covered either- were the religious police off that day?

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