Unbelievable! What is wrong with people ?!

Welcome to the slave/master society. Ain't it a scream. :P My favorite is when the little Qatari kids butt in line and when you say "Excuse me, I was here" The say "I'm Qatari, go away!"

I feel your scorn and I accept it-Jon Stewart

What about when they drive up in their Landcruisers, toot their horns and wait for an Indian juice stall waiter to take their orders?

of Qataris was at Hamad hospital the other week. Was standing in line, waiting to pay at cashier...in front of me was a young Qatari couple, and 3 expatriates. The Qarari couple finish paying and this older Qatari woman, comes from BEHIND me, shoves her money in the window, in front of the other 3 expatriates. Of course, we all FOUR turn and tell her, with fingers pointed backwards..that the que is BEHNIND us..she mutters and grumbles and goes to the back of the line....THEN..while waiting my turn to be called..watch this other older Qatari woman keep interrupting into the office rooms with patients in them, trying to cut in because she didn't want to wait..and for at least 5 times, she was told no...then came MY turn, and as I was about to go into the room, she is going into MY room and the nurse give me this apologetic look and says she'll call me next(It WAS my turn!!)..the maid was standing outside the door and had this look on her face like she wanted to crawl under the tile..saying ohh that is my madame's mother..she will be very quick...WHAT the Heck is that??? I finally get in and promptly let the doctor and nurse have 10 kinds of H*ll, telling them that no one is better than another and she should have been told to wait her turn instead of cutting in line of people that have ACTUALLY waited in line for an hour and half! Just got this blank stare...So far, the only bad thing ones I have seen are the older ones like this and the very young men...and they are just horrible drivers...

Its a shame that a very few can be the most visible bad examples....but then again..that's in any country...wonder why that is???

I might have to try that next time..I have never been so furious in my life..(course the doc being a complete nincompoop didn't help!). Wanted to thump her on the head and say..hey..remember the rest of the world out here??? Only redeeming quality of that night was the guy behind the counter at the pharmacy who joked with me, and this Qatari woman waiting for her prescriptions, with 2 little girls, who I was teasing. She and I got to talking, and she showed me her littlest daughter who was 6 months old..and we talked for about 30 minutes, her sister joining in...redeemed my attitude in what I KNEW Qataris to be like, instead of the rare occurances of rudeness I'd experiened earlier.

Indians Some were recruited and sent to Saudi for Camel races..So stupid....

I feel as if the people have forgotten all the good manners and the politeness.

1) When you are on the road in a car no one will give you way, you have to barge in.

2) When the people in cars see a pedestrian trying to cross a road, they tend to speed up or apply brakes right infront of the pedestrian.

3)Even the crazy pedestrians hate crossing the road from the zebra crossing or the signals.

4)Breaking the line/queue is an all time favorite in Qatar, Be it in a shopping mall, or hospital.

5) Even in the carrefour people buying only one item tend to go straight to the cashier irrespective of the fact how long the line is and how many people have been standing for quite some time.

6)And the women in Qatar really need to learn some shopping manners. They tend to stand right in front of the stack making it difficult for the male shoppers to get a hand on the item.

7) And why the hell do the women get preferntial treatment. Last Monday I went to the traffic department to pay the fine, and I had to wait for three hours for my turn. And this lady comes in drenched in some perfume, goes straight to the counter and the officer obliges her. And there I was thinking just because she got some extra meat on her chest she gets preference. (I demand gender equality)

its the impersonators who are more obnoxious and try to act all high and mighty .. for one if someones full on witgh the road rage and screaming in arabic when i finally let him pass .. i either ignore him or reply in english which pretty much pissed him off even more :) and he just goes away .. yea i do know that most of the educated Qataris do speak very good english but i guess these guys might not be from that category,, but its sad how fickle minded some of them can be ..

life goes on ..

Thought only teenagers have the bad driving habbits and specially tailgatuing. Until yesterday when I was tailgated by a landcruiser and gues what, the guy is in his 40s, next to him was his wife and in the back seats his kids. What a parent.