Conversation with Police Officer

Friday, December 16. 2005

Yesterday, when I got to passport control at Queen Alia's airport, the officer asked me for my passport, and when I gave it to him...

Officer: Laish mrabby sha3ratak ya 3ammar
Ammar: (beddo akhlas min garafo ) Wallah gellet fadaweh ya basha
Officer: Tab laish nas7an, bel soura bagait an7af
Ammar: (Surprised ) Ya seedy shu beddy agollak? Il 7ajjeh metwasyeh feena, btotbokh akel zaky
Officer: Zay shu Akel zaky ya3ne? ( Lookin' behind me, The queue got really longer )
Ammar: Magloobeh mathalan
Officer: Keef btotbokhooha
Ammar: Zahra o Beitenjan

Then a higher rank officer notices that I spent so much time talking to that officer, he comes up to him and tells him " Ya zalameh fe alf wa7ad wara il shab, hassa mosh waget il akel "

Posted by Ammar Ibrahim in Jordan at 12:05 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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#1 raindrop (Homepage) on 2005-12-16 13:13 (Reply)

welcome home !

#2 Darwish Naji (Homepage) on 2005-12-16 15:05 (Reply)

You should have confused him and told him: zay penne arrabiata, porcini roasted turkey 2o mansaf 3al 6aree2ah el mexikiah...

anyways here's my spaammmyyy (sorry can't afford adwords yet)
submit your blog to http://www.iopblogs.com its a geographic aggregator, its in beta stage for now, but we already have some countries up...i would love it if Jordan was next (my home country)

#3 huh (Homepage) on 2005-12-16 15:18 (Reply)

hahahahaha, Its just that they are trained BADLY to examine u and the reason ur traveling through tabeee7' conversations.

#4 Luai Al-Masri (Homepage) on 2005-12-16 15:29 (Reply)

lol, I honestly feel bad for these people and to be quite honest I sometimes wish they would strike these conversations with me when I get back home. These exchanges are usually my first in Arabic in my homeland after being gone for a long period of time. They're special :p

If you were bored of that exchange of 3 or 4 sentences, imagine what the poor guy has to go through the whole day. How do you expect him not to try to start a casual conversation like that?

But it's true that sometimes they do delay the movement of the lines.

#5 Hamzeh on 2005-12-16 17:46 (Reply)

Here is another one for you at the QA airport. Ususally, there is nothing exciting about the arrival affair. if any, it has been very orderly and smooth. Until...last december 2005...which seems to be around the same time you had an encounter with the same third kind...Hmmm. couuld it be the same fella?

I arrived from Dubai and headed to the passport counter. There was a long line, which I did not mind. Then suddenly, a young officer settled in one of the booths, I and a few others moved over to the new vacant line and started to process a passport. Suddenly, without a word, he just left to another booth and left us waiting for an explaination. None. So we asked the officer what should we do? He said "that's your problem." To make a long story short, a senior officer asked one of the officers to open another line. guess what, those who were at the front waiting the most, ended up at the end of the new line. I said to my self this is a freak accident, considering that over the last year or so I had no such rude encounters. But after reading your post, and with another friend who had a nother rude encounter at QA airport, I am afraid things have a tendency in Jordan to slip backwards instead of moving forward.

#6 Adnan on 2006-01-01 13:05 (Reply)

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