Not a regular post today, just an anecdote.
After showing Andrew and Liz through Coptic Cairo (Look it's St. Damiana and the 40 Virgins! Hey Pope Shenouda!), I led them into one of my favorite parts of town, the run-down Coptic cemetery. There aren't many open, park-like spaces in Cairo, so you have to appreciate them where you find them. Sometimes, a creepy cemetery with a few open graves has to do.
After we got away from a guard demanding bakshish and a guy with an Elmo voice wanting to guide us through the tombs, we turned down a lane of graves. A few dogs barked.
[I should note, that this morning I had been reading that rabies in Egypt is "endemic"]
They barked louder. Then they started running towards us. We started running away.
Liz was bumped by one, but we otherwise remained unscathed. As we made our way out, I thought aloud: I may not be faster than a rabid dog, but I am faster than Liz. And really, that's all I need to be.
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i maintain that i protected both the men from the dogs in the Coptic cemetery - there were like 20, and i beat them off with a spare roll of toilet paper.
ReplyDeleteBest anecdote of all time.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't you dare try and pretend that an old cemetary isn't equal to or greater than a well trimmed park. In fact, I would have to argue that a graveyard with elmo-man (that is going to give me nightmares) and rabid dogs is probably the best thing ever and an excellent place to go read Great Expectations or something. Nice going.