8 Things You’ve Become Due To Driving In Lebanon

Driving in this country changes you, it really does. Your five senses become more heightened: sounds are noisier, humans are predators, lights are blinding, and a smell can set you off. It is crazy how different we are outside the car when behind the wheel we tend to be:

1. An Anxious Person

If you are a zen person IRL, then you know that there is no such thing as calm behind the wheel. Unless, you’re driving on a deserted highway, what a foreign concept.

2. A Master of Swearing

The beauty of the Arabic language is that it translates our feelings of rage so well. You just can’t help but spurt out unique combos of swear words.

3. A Human GPS

Drivers with experience probably know 10 different way to get home depending on the day and time, and whether or not that one school around the corner is off.

4. A Multi-tasking legend

Between replying to an urgent email and listening to your best-friend breakup story voice notes, Lebanese drivers can get a whole lot of stuff done while waiting in unmoving traffic at the intersection.

5. A The Voice Contestant

What happens in traffic stays in traffic. I don’t know about you but I channel my inner Cardi B and start spitting bars I never knew I could.

6. A More Devout Believer

You know those life or death situations when it is either you or the cat and you pick the cat and you’re still alive after so you thank God? Or when you almost got into an accident, so you consider going on a pilgrimage soon.

7. Someone Who Almost Lost An Eye

Throback to that time when you were in a rush so you’d thought you can get away with doing your makeup in the car and almost poked your eye out with mascara.

8. An Ad Critic

If you had a dollar for every sexist and dumb ad you had to stare at while traffic dragged on, honey you’d be a millionaire.

9. A person who should look into Anger Management classes

You just get angry over nothing to the point that if someone put an ichara at the right time, you’re pissed. Even a thank you from another passenger infuriates you.

10. A Greenpeace advocate

Every time someone throws garbage out of the window or you see a plastic bag on the road, you side with Mother Nature and honk the shit out of your horn to ruin the litterers day.