veiledsentiments
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| Comparing Kuwait with Cairo is ridiculous--in my opinion--and in my over twenty years of living in Kuwait...NEVER have I seen a rotting goat on the beach... |
Lucky you. I was there for a total of ten long months and I saw (and smelled) and watched rot... three of them. And there were two other skulls from previous arrivals. I had noticed the skulls and wondered how they got there. That mystery was solved soon enough. One can't make this stuff up... The bad part wasn't that the creature showed up, which shows what those big transport ships from Australia do when something dies before arrival... but that it was never removed.
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| How did this person insult you???? I certainly don't see it!! |
Perhaps that is because you are just as silly and ridiculous as I am. Or perhaps your Alzheimer's keeps you from remembering her posts up to the time you post.  She is really a very sweet person... wouldn't say a bad word about anyone.
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| life can be very nice in Kuwait...especially if you have Kuwaiti friends......which sadly...I suspect...some people do not bother to make............ |
I already agreed with that one. I have friends who still live there. And my one good memory of Kuwait is the lovely students. It was only them that kept me there until the end of the Academic year... where KU renewed my contract, but I had already decided that I wouldn't return.
I was not there long enough to make many, but the ones that I met a social gatherings complained loud and long about the rude treatment by their fellow Kuwaiti bureaucrats and how they hated having to deal with them. Personally I wasn't shocked at rudeness to expats, but to their fellow Kuwaitis, yet. Perhaps I should describe the 4 month tale of trying to get my driving license... just a normal transfer of a US to a Kuwaiti... all proper paperwork delivered on first visit... over a dozen visits on where a snotty Kuwaiti clerk would snatch my paperwork from my hand... check his little box on the table behind him, throw my papers back at me and growl... 'see officer'... who was Kuwaiti... would snatch the paper and temp license and stamp it for another week. After four months of this I asked to see a higher (Kuwaiti) officer, told him the story, he apologized profusely and he told me to come directly to see him in a week, and he gave me my license. I always wondered how these Kuwaiti bureaucrats would respond to rudeness, what with how they responded to someone who smiled, greeted them in proper Arabic, and was invariably polite.
But of course, all taxi drivers and landlords in Kuwait are paragons of virtue.  My landlord was great, but she wasn't Kuwaiti.
So, you have been living or lived in Kuwait for 20 years... interesting...
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