{"id":50137,"date":"2017-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/50137\/22-things-youre-only-afraid-of-if-you-live-in-beirut"},"modified":"2023-05-08T09:53:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T09:53:57","slug":"22-things-youre-only-afraid-of-if-you-live-in-beirut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/50137\/22-things-youre-only-afraid-of-if-you-live-in-beirut\/","title":{"rendered":"22 Things You&#8217;re Only Afraid Of If You Live In Beirut"},"content":{"rendered":"<big>Oh, the horror.<\/big><br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B><BIG><BIG>1.<\/b> That you\u2019ll spend two hours finding a parking space, only to have the valet walk up to you and mark his territory.<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>2.<\/b> That you\u2019ll have to find parking in a mall\u2026during Christmas.<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>3.<\/b> Worrying that the weather you dress for when you wake up will not be the same weather by noon.<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>4.<\/b> That this one particular pothole will be the straw on the camels back, finally destroying the bottom of your car.<br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/50137.png\"><br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>5.<\/b> Realizing that the likelihood of your internet dying before your Skype interview are really, really high.<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>6.<\/b> Worrying that you\u2019ll meet someone and fall in love, only to find out you\u2019re somehow related.<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>7.<\/b> Seeing this on Google Maps:<br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/50137-1.png\"><br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>8.<\/b> Getting food poisoning from your favorite shawarma spot, ruining it for you forever.<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>9.<\/b>  Being charged $5+ for a bottle of water at a restaurant\/beach.<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>10.<\/b> The prospect of running into your gossipy neighbor after a late night out.<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>11.<\/b> The prospect of running into your gossipy neighbor while you\u2019re buying condoms.<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>12.<\/b> Having to pee while a politician\u2019s motorcade casually blocks the road for 15-minutes.<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>13.<\/b> Forgetting your earphones and being forced to have a lengthy political discussion with your cab driver. <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>14.<\/b> Approaching a parking spot only to see a shitty plastic chair blocking it. <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>15.<\/b> Having your family friends \u2018drop in\u2019 for 3 hours on your day off. <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>16.<\/b> Having to complete governmental paperwork\/errands without a <i>wasta<\/i>.<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>17.<\/b> That some jerk could toss a cigarette from his car and burn the remaining greenery to the ground. <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>18.<\/b> That your family will try to set you up with some horrendous spouse, and be extremely obvious while doing it. <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>19.<\/b> That the pollution on the beach you always go to will give you cancer.<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>20.<\/b> That that sound wasn\u2019t just fireworks\u2026<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>21.<\/b> That the weird truck transporting cows in front of you will tip back on an incline and you\u2019ll die by way of cow smash. <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>22.<\/b> That today might be the day that the long awaited earthquake actually happens.<br \/>      <figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"135\" data-id=\"410367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/50137-250x135.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-410367\" 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