I apologize for the delay. I know you were all checking the site daily just praying that you could hear about the dead donkey.
The apartment where I live is on the 7th story of solidly-built apartment block located on a street called Kawser. Just down the road there is a famous juice stand where you can get all types of fresh-squeezed juice for about 30 cents a pop. Not too bad. This juice place is located on a pretty major street - Gameat ad-Dawal Street. For you Coloradan's, think of Colorado Blvd and Yale, at rush hour traffic, but twice the size. For those from California, just think of Los Angeles.
My roommate, his Dad, and I were sitting at a outdoor resturant down the street eating the usual meal of schwerma, shish tawouk, and other amazing and healthy foodstuffs. (Okay, I'm lying a bit... I wasn't there yet, but it sounds better if I say I was). Now, only in Egypt do you have such a contrast of time periods, with hundreds of thousands of cars interlaced with horse and donkey drawn carriages carrying fresh produce from outside Cairo... all on the same street.
Well, the cars are cruising along, maybe 40 miles an hour, and the donkey cart is trucking along, maybe 10 miles an hour, when we hear a blood-curdling "neigh" or "hawwww" or whatever sound donkeys make. In the distance, a taxi has somehow hooked his bumper onto the harness of the donkey and is dragging him down the road. After fifty feet or so, the donkey comes unhooked and lies pitifully on the ground as the taxi speeds off.
Anyways, straight to the point, a poor donkey minding his busy was ruthlessly dragged to his death by a blaring taxi on a major road in the middle of Cairo... true story.
2 comments:
ouch, it hurts.
but thanks for FINALLY posting it!
That's it?? You didnt eat it or skin it for clothing? Man, two weeks of build up had me thinking... ;)
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