It is an embellished but hilarious story, adapted from my personal experience when I was living in this surprising city Amman, in 2011.

ABSPOST

As you've known, it is inevitable for those who live abroad to encounter some troublesome situations in their daily life...Thus, I am going to share a story which made me feel embarrassed at that moment, but I couldn't help giggling when I think of it till now, but before cutting into the topic, I have to inform you about some facts.


Firstly, my classmates Suheir and I had rented 3 different flats around Al-Jubeiha area in Amman. Secondly, most of the flats in Amman are managed by a Haaris  (حارس) which means a conservator, a guardian or whatever. He usually lives in the building which he manages. Maybe in the basement or another room. What's more, they manage everything in the building. That is, sometimes he could be more helpful than your landlord! That is why I want to talk about Haaris today.


As I've told, we've lived in 3 flats, so we've got to deal with 3 different Haaris as well. All of them are from Egypt, and it's no big deal. The thing is...they are all called Ahmad! However, the story is just about only 2 of them, so I hope it will not turn out to be so confusing for you inshallah.lol


Anyway, we really liked our first Haaris Ahmad. He was always standby, willing to help and quite efficient when he worked. Whenever we had problems, we just gave him a call, and he would arrive at our door at the 3rd floor within 2 minutes. (Why '2' minutes? Because he always said so!lol) Above all, we could understand his words because he could speak some basic English. Therefore, it became a big contrast when we moved to the second apartment from the first one in November. It was sad that we didn't say goodbye to him nicely...


As for The second Haaris Ahmad, he couldn't speak any English, and we could hardly understand his Egyptian accent. There was NO way for us to communicate with each other and he even refused to talk with us... He always brought our kind neighbor Sheikh Abu Rami with him every time when we had to pay him bills for water and electricity so that he didn't have to speak to us.lol By the way, we lived in the basement of the second apartment.


One day in January, we ran out of gas when we tried to cook dinner. We wanted to call the Haaris and ask him to bring us a new bottle of gas since it was freezing outside. Suheir asked me if I had his number, so I checked my mobile and told her the number. Then she called him...

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We : آلو ، السلام عليكم (Hello, may the peace be upon you.)

Haaris : وعليكم السلام (May the peace be upon you also.)

We : نحن ساكنون في غرفة رقم 8.عندما مشكلة. ما في غاز في البيت

        (We are dwellers of room No.8. We have a problem. No gas at home!!)

Haaris : أوكي ، توو مينيت (okay, after 2 minutes.)

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After 15 minutes........

 

We started complaining...... "He hasn't come yet. Why he is sooo slow!!!? Maybe he's sleeping...He is lazy!!...etc"

We were so impatient that we couldn't wait, so we made another call.

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We : آلو...؟ (Hello)

Haaris : Hala, where do you live!!?

We : رقم 8 في طابق الأرض (No.8 at the basement.)

Haaris : Okay! Open the door!

We : Ohh okay! (rush to the door A.S.A.P.)

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We were just surprised at that he spoke English to us and there was no obstacle for him to understand our sentences!! Mashallah!XDD

after 10 minutes....

There was no one coming...We got impatient again...but this time we thought about the conversation again...

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Suheir : what's the number you told me to call? 

Me : Isn't the number of the Haaris : 07XX-XXX-XXX?? 

Suheir : Let me check. 

Suheir : eh...yeah... it is the Haaris' number, but not the one we wanted to call...

Me : huh? You mean.......... the first Haaris Ahmad?

Suheir : yeah............so stupid............

Me : .............................ha...ha...

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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha  omg I was so ridiculous!!!!!LOL

and I felt so sorry for the first Haaris Ahmad. He must be angry at us.lol 

 

oh, by the way, we got the gas in the end alhamdulilah. Abu Rami and the second Ahmad helped us with that...

So, you've remember the meaning of Haaris (حارس) by now, right?:P  

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