Thursday, December 14, 2006

Smart move Mr. Ramsis!!!!!

Cars.... slow car, straight, still slow car, square, drive left, no more slow car, right, stop…
Traffic infront of the bridge. 10 minutes in the same spot. At the end of the bridge: a car broken. Man underneath the car fixing it. Never crossed his mind to move the car 2 meters to the front and then 2 meters to the side and spare me 10 minutes of my precious time. After bridge fast again….not that fast actually. Fast is a relative thing. I drive straight, take the road underneath 6th of October bridge (the “Road of the Clever”, as we used to call it…. But should change the name…..they are not so clever anymore). Drive in curves, stop for no reason, bridge, then down again, then STOP.
I stop in the part, where Ramsis statue stood for around… 50 years?
But he left the area. He realized, like most of us, how crowded and polluted the area became and he decided to move outside Cairo to the new neighborhoods. Like many Caireans, who left Cairo and went to the suburbs, Mr. Ramsis did the same.
But though some of these Caireans were smart to leave the crowded city, they weren’t smart enough, or maybe not lucky enough, to find a job within or near their new neighborhoods. So they have to drive E-VERY-DAY to the city center and get stuck in the traffic, AND increase the number of cars driving around Cairo to the double during the day.
Mr. Ramsis, did something else. He didn’t leave his old house, Ramsis Square, and go to the new suburb until he found a job nearby his new house. So he’s actually living and working in the same area…. Actually same spot.