After 10 months, you know when you’re in Dubai when:
- Your kid asks why you’re all wet at the back after you drive
- A journey that normally takes 15 minutes on Friday mornings takes you 2 hours on normal days.
- You drive to Naif and you think you took the wrong exit and you landed in India!
- You take the wrong turn and you have to drive forever to go back!
- After years of driving and never touching the horn, you find yourself honking every single minute.
- You repeatedly ask your husband driving if he is on the right side of the road!!
- You get scratches in your car appearing on a daily basis and you have no idea where you got it!!
- The speed restriction is just a suggestion!
- Sometimes the drivers on the road don’t have any idea what an indicator is!
- All you talk about is traffic.
- You feel already sick of repeating your theories about what is causing traffic and how it can be solved…but nevertheless can’t bring yourself to swallow it and shut up.
- Traffic stories are the main agenda at bedtime talks
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I loved visiting my tailor in Naif, but it is HECTIC!!!!!! And you end up being the only woman around!
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There is no way my husband could live there. He’s so careful about our cars. He’d go crazy if there was even the tiniest scratch.
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I thought I lived with idiot drivers where I live.
Sheesh!
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… this reminds me to renew my student license to a regular license.
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You know you’re a driver in Dubai
* you see a car reversing on Sheikh Zayed Road during rush hour cos the driver missed the turning
* to get to the Starbucks on the other side of the road (OK it’s a 12 lane road) you have to go 2km UUUUUPPPPPPP then take a massive u-turn and then go back AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL the way down. you’ll need more than just a coffee after that
* you can sit in your car and honk your horn outside a restaurant and they will come and take your order
* over night they replace the roundabout with a set of signals, change the direction of the road and narrow it to one lane… for a day and then change it again
* indicators are strictly optional as are head lights in the evening
*when it’s foggy, people drive faster and turn on their hazards
*a hole appears in the road big enough to swallow a car and then overnight they fill it with rocks…and a little spread of tar
Driving in Dubai is so unique! (at least to me it is!)
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