Hamster For A Week
In the taxi on the way to Ardellewa today, I was telling Maha about my newfound fascination for Cairo Scholars, with its bleeding hearts and unacknowledged privilege and fascinating insight into the most trivial concerns of People Like Me. And she admitted to being similarly addicted, and we giggled about the Mexican Restaurant Morality drama and then she told me about an episode I badly wish I'd seen: Hamster For A Week. I made her dig it out and she's just forwarded it to me:
Dear CS,
I was wondering if anyone has a white hamster that I could borrow. I have a lot of spare hamster supplies (running wheel, cage, exercizin ball, hamster cage shavings) but no hamster to use them. I would only need it for about a week, and I can return it to you after that. Him or Her hamster is okay for me both of them. Or, if you know where in Zamalek I could buy one, just for a week, that would be also nice.
Thanks!!
Unlike the food morality drama, CS had a field day at this.
I dunno, I suppose LJ comms like stupid_free provide a more regular feed of harmless batshit, but this one, for some reason, had me in stitches for the whole evening. I kept on remembering it and laughing apropos of nothing.
On another note, Elisa of 'Egyptians keep stealing my organs!!' fame got the appropriate smackdown for her generalising bullshit on Egyptian medical facilities. Excellent Egyptian doctors are available - you just have to pay for them.
Dear CS,
I was wondering if anyone has a white hamster that I could borrow. I have a lot of spare hamster supplies (running wheel, cage, exercizin ball, hamster cage shavings) but no hamster to use them. I would only need it for about a week, and I can return it to you after that. Him or Her hamster is okay for me both of them. Or, if you know where in Zamalek I could buy one, just for a week, that would be also nice.
Thanks!!
Unlike the food morality drama, CS had a field day at this.
I dunno, I suppose LJ comms like stupid_free provide a more regular feed of harmless batshit, but this one, for some reason, had me in stitches for the whole evening. I kept on remembering it and laughing apropos of nothing.
On another note, Elisa of 'Egyptians keep stealing my organs!!' fame got the appropriate smackdown for her generalising bullshit on Egyptian medical facilities. Excellent Egyptian doctors are available - you just have to pay for them.