There are a lot of awesome things about Dubai. Beach. Ladies' Night. Desert. Beautiful buildings. Shopping galore. My job. Camels. This weekend's Eid celebration and the long weekend that came with it. The patience we're gaining from living in foreign country in the Middle East...
What's not awesome is not sleeping from 2 - 5 am because the crazies are honking their horns and revving their Ferrari engines outside your apartment!
It literally sounded like this...
HONK! HONK, HONK! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK! HONK, HONK, HONK! HONK! HOOOOOOONK, HOOOOOOOONK! HONK! HONK, HONK! (Random engine rev.) HONK!!!
What they are honking at, we have no idea. The street was a parking lot. No one was moving and nobody could do anything about it. There were just too many cars on the street at the same time. Our street gets super busy on the weekends, and we usually hear a little honking, but three hours of continuous honking is a little excessive. I feel like we've dealt with so many frustrations here that we're adopting the Kiwi way of life and learning to laugh off frustrations instead of getting angry. If this happened two months ago, I would have been so annoyed wondering how people can be so inconsiderate and rude, but not last weekend! Casey and I woke up, gawked at the insane traffic jam below and giggled as the drivers started honking tunes in unison...for 3 hours...What else could we do? The cops were already down there and didn't seem to mind that they were waking up the entire neighborhood.
Laughing really is the only way to get through some of Dubai's frustrations, and even though we got 3 hours less sleep than we would have liked, we felt better laughing about it than we would have if we had gotten mad. I think Dubai is preparing us for parenthood.
What's not awesome is not sleeping from 2 - 5 am because the crazies are honking their horns and revving their Ferrari engines outside your apartment!
It literally sounded like this...
HONK! HONK, HONK! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK! HONK, HONK, HONK! HONK! HOOOOOOONK, HOOOOOOOONK! HONK! HONK, HONK! (Random engine rev.) HONK!!!
What they are honking at, we have no idea. The street was a parking lot. No one was moving and nobody could do anything about it. There were just too many cars on the street at the same time. Our street gets super busy on the weekends, and we usually hear a little honking, but three hours of continuous honking is a little excessive. I feel like we've dealt with so many frustrations here that we're adopting the Kiwi way of life and learning to laugh off frustrations instead of getting angry. If this happened two months ago, I would have been so annoyed wondering how people can be so inconsiderate and rude, but not last weekend! Casey and I woke up, gawked at the insane traffic jam below and giggled as the drivers started honking tunes in unison...for 3 hours...What else could we do? The cops were already down there and didn't seem to mind that they were waking up the entire neighborhood.
Laughing really is the only way to get through some of Dubai's frustrations, and even though we got 3 hours less sleep than we would have liked, we felt better laughing about it than we would have if we had gotten mad. I think Dubai is preparing us for parenthood.
You two are very wise. Laughter is the shock absorber that smoothes the bumps of life. When faced with the inevitable, you might as well laugh, since there is absolutely nothing you can do about it. It's much better for the blood pressure. So...would the holiday honking be the equivalent of our shooting our shotguns into the air at midnight, December 31? Or our bottle rockets and cherry bombs going off starting on July 1 and continuing until that date when they are all gone? At least they don't blow off fingers with their holiday revelry. :-)
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