Charafantah's Cave

Some people don’t believe in bad luck…those people have not met me yet.

I certainly agree that everyone will definitely face bad situations in his life, and i certainly agree that any of the situations i’ve been through could easily happen to anyone else. But i also believe that they can’t happen to anyone else than me in such a systematic, ironic and timely manner.

It’s as if the whole world is conspiring against me, it’s like i am the living proof of Murphey’s laws. Sometimes people meet me and say: “dont worry, its just coincidences, you are perfectly normal, my cousin was in the same situation as you” but they realize their mistake later on when they know me better

Its thousands of small things, nothing severe or fatal so far, thank God, but its too much.

So, back to the story, let me tell you how did my last week go:

• Tue 21 April 9:30am: I join my new work….
• Wed 27 May: A stupid conversation with my father about how careless i am, it all started when he saw the mess in my room, the conversation included a question on where do i place the work’s laptop among a few other questions…. all my responses where among the lines of “dont worry father, i know what am doing”
• Thu 28 May – 5:00pm: Work is finished,  a colleague asked me if i could give him a lift as he doesnt have his car today, i said yes, since he live in heliopolis which is not too far from me.
• Thu 28 May – 6:00pm: Dropped him off at his home, discovered that he lives near Diwan bookshop, so i decided that after all the tension i am going through the past few weeks, i really need a relaxing weekend at home with a good book.
• Thu 28 May – 6:10pm: Got my book and headed back to my car.
• Thu 28 May – 6:11pm: I noticed the car is much noisier than usual, looked back, to find the window’s glass is broken, 10 seconds later i realize that the laptop which i left on the back seat is missing (yes, the laptop i got from my new work, which costs 1200EUR)
  Yes, this is the SECOND TIME I LOSE WORK’S LAPTOP!!!!!!! mesh mesada2 nafsy ya3ny!
• Thu 28 May – 6:30pm: Trying to file a report in Nozha police station(which is located just next to heliopolis square btw!!), after long conversation, they told me the robbery didnt occur in their area and i have to file the report in Heliopolis police station
• Thu 28 May – 7:00pm: Trying to find an officer to file a report…
• Thu 28 May – 7:30pm: Still trying…
• Thu 28 May – 8:15pm: The report is done, i ask to get the report number and a copy of it to provide to work, the guy said we have to ask “Wael Basha” first!!!
• Thu 28 May – 9:00pm: Wael Basha went out….still waiting for him.
• Thu 28 May – 10:00pm: I go fix the broken glass
• Thu 28 May – 10:45pm: Looks like Wael Basha mezawa3′….i go home
• Fri 29 May – 3:00pm: I go get a haircut
• Fri 29 May – 3:45pm: Finished my hair cut, go back to my car, Wind Shield glass is broken (YES! The front glass) lewa7do keda! ghayran men a7′ou!
• Sat 30 May – 4:00pm: Back to police station, trying to get my copy of report, had to pay money under the table to get the report number
• Sat 30 May – 5:30pm: The guy said he cant get it to me today as the number i got is wrong, will meet him tom early morning to get it (he wants more money!)
• Sat 30 May – 7:30pm: You dont want to know.
• Tue 2 June – 7:00pm: My car totally broke up
• Thu 4 June – 6:00pm: Total cost to fix car and renew license etc 3200LE

lets try to do a rational analysis looking at the past events, we can find the irony in the following:

• The work’s laptop had to be stolen(2nd time ) when i merely completed a month at my new work!
• It also had to be stolen just the next day where my father was accusing me of being careless and tells me to watch out where i place my laptop in car!!!!!
• My colleague at work HAD to ask for a ride that day!
• He had to live next to Diwan!
• The theif had to pass by my car during the 10 mins i left it unattended!!!
• The glass HAD to break the next day!!!

Do you think it’s all a coincidence? i think NOT!

Just to remind you:

• Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse
• Smile today. . . tomorrow will be worse
• If it seems to good to be true, it probably isn’t

ان حظي كدقيق فوق شوك نثروه ,,, ثم قالو لحفاة يوم ريح اجمعوه !!!
صعب الأمر عليهم ثم قالو اتركوه ,,, ان من اشقاه ربي كيف انتم تسعدوه!!!

The sad thing, that it’s my own car.

Am a good driver (that’s what my friends say), am not a crazy maniac who thinks he’s in a video game, am not a slow driver either, i take really good care when crossing lanes, i always put my seat belt one (many people find this a VERY weird behavior in Cairo), and i always use my mirrors.

Also, i don’t mind AT ALL!!!! that my car gets damaged if am in ANY WAY responsible for it.

Its the third time now, my car got hit again…and i swear to God i was just driving STRAIGHT ahead on a speed like 40KMPH (i was driving on Nasr Road heading to Maadi at 9:00am you must know it’s very crowded that time, i can’t speed more than that)

Suddenly, to find some “shab saye3″ in a Mitsubishi Lancer, taking a “3′orza – غرزة” beside me, and somehow, he didn’t see me…so he ended up hitting my car from the side.

The hit was not really strong, specially that we’re moving slowly and THERE IS traffic (why the HELL would someone take a 3′orza in a place like this!) We stopped a few meters later, the guy came down, everyone is ok, we checked our cars, mine is scratched from the side and has blue painting from his car all over my right side of the car.

My front right passenger door is not opening smoothly.

I was starting to shout (like usual, when my car gets hit), then am surprised the guy is actually saying: “SORRY, My mistake”, at first i couldn’t believe my ears when i heard it and i go like: “are you still sleeping?what the hell is sorry going to do?” then he said sorry again, and i really calmed down, i told him it’s ok, nothing serious happened, he apologized again and we left.

So, what’s the morale of the story, you ask me? Well, he’s a bad driver or he was sleeping or whatever reason he done that stupid 3′orza, it’s ok, it happens (at least to me all the time), but he apologized, which was all i wanted, he admitted of being wrong, so i respect the guy, and that’s the only reason why i didn’t $*it on his face.

Although, am still FLAMING WITH ANGER for my car, and that i need to pay more to fix it, specially that IT IS NOT MY MISTAKE!!! AND THAT ITS NOT THE FIRST TIME IT HAPPENS TO ME!!!WHY MEEEEE PLEASE LET IT NOT BE ME AGAIN!!!!

I hate those scratches in my car, i suffered a lot to get it, so it really hurts me bad when something happens to it, it’s like me being hit, not the car.

If you don’t know, i had 2 hits before:

• 1st day of Ramadan,  going to Maadi in the morning, (nazlet el ma3adi men 3al autostrad),  an woman in her early 50′s in a Lada, decided to stop down the hill (3al manzal) to ask for directions, if you know that area, you will know it barely fit 2 cars, specially that there are 2 separate ways just before it, so it’s a mess already, so the car behind her (a Jeep Cherokee)  hits her from the back, then me, behin the Jeep, ended up hitting the Jeep from the back.
  Offcourse, nothing happens to the Lada, or to the Jeep, but off course, my car is wrecked, my front light is broken and “الكبوت” is wrecked. As usual, no apology, nothing is said, the woman just left me in my misery.
• A few months earlier, i have the car parked in Salah Salem, asking for directions ,the Flasher is on, my parents are in the car, to find a Ramsees Microbus, hitting the car from behind on full speed (my parents are inside!), and taking the car all the way up on the pavement,
  
  I ran like crazy to check on my parents, they are ok, just some injuries, my car is totally damaged, hundreds of people grouped around us, each one trying to say his 2 cents, the driver come out of his microbus, we started to shout at each other, am in a very bad mood, i insult him, some people grabbing me from the back and want to beat me(????!!!!! DOHHHH ) it appears that they are his friends from the neighborhood (i was near the place they stop), they try to engage with me in a fight, next thing i know the guy drove like hell with his metal giant monster, everyone left saying to me “عوضك على الله” – god will replace it for you-  and i ended up paying 13,500LE to fix my car.

Oh, i forgot to mention, that someone followed him and got me the number (thank you dude i don’t know who got me the number), and i made a report in the police station, but nothing (off course, as expected) happened, even though i bribed them all!!!! i paid like 150LE for the officers and they promised they would help getting my revenge, but looks like it wasn’t enough.