{"id":56881,"date":"2018-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/56881\/13-crazy-things-lebanese-people-do-everyday"},"modified":"2018-12-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T00:00:00","slug":"13-crazy-things-lebanese-people-do-everyday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/56881\/13-crazy-things-lebanese-people-do-everyday\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Crazy Things Lebanese People Do Everyday"},"content":{"rendered":"If you think about it, we Lebanese not only manage to navigate the unbearable political instabilities and surprises, but we also endure a lot in our daily lives. In fact, we are pretty much olympians in these 13 extreme sports. BRB adding these to my CV. <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b>1. Mentally surveying the numbers of the tickets ahead of you at the bank because you don\u2019t trust the system.<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  I am sure there is also a <i>wasta<\/i> behind this numbering, how did the machine suddenly jump from 940 to 950 and I am 939?<br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/10IyKFb0H9SG9G\/200.gif\"width=\"80%\"><br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b> 2. Merging when you are driving on a two-way street<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  Please, who is going to set their ego aside and let me peacefully pass to the other side.<br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cefait01.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/going-to-die.gif\"width=\"80%\"><br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b> 3. Being stuck in <i>3aj2a<\/i> on the way to Faqra or Faraya on New Years or 3id el saydeh <\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  But you still happily go up, even though it is still the same issue every year.<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b> 4. #TBT to spending 6 hours in traffic on a highway because the government decided to hold parade rehearsals on the busiest day of the week. <\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  It felt great to be independent and Lebanese that day. <br \/>  <br \/>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fbeirutcityguide%2Fvideos%2F2021191554837454%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b> 5. Waiting outside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/52398\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Swiss Butter<\/a> with 500 other people who are yearning for that 22,000 LL meal.<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b> 6. Running on three when your mom starts her mini-count<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  Onne, Twwwwo, Threee! Ok, <i> mech rah yetla3lak gateau ba3d el ghada <\/i>.<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b> 7. Working on a paper two hours before the deadline. Then skipping right to the conclusion when  you realize you&#8217;ve got 5 minutes left.<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reactiongifs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/computing.gif\"width=\"80%\"><br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b> 8. Just the mere practice of driving amongst motorcycle drivers that pop out of nowhere <\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  Then, they yell at you <i> Maa2oul ma 2eche3tineh bel mreye <\/i>. Sis, no you jumped out of nowhere. <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b> 9. The WWE fight that commences when the waiter drops the bill on the table during Sunday family lunch.<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ebaumsworld.com\/mediaFiles\/picture\/1015945\/84137557.gif\"width=\"80%\"><br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b> 10. The sport of stabbing every button on the remote when your mom or dad or your younger sibling walk in on you watching a show with a steamy sex scene<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/UIPKJeBws658I\/giphy.gif\"width=\"80%\"><br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b> 11. When your mind and face are rehearsing what to tell the bouncers and exactly how you should react when they turn you away at the door. <\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  <i> De un,<\/i> I turn 21 in like 32 hours. <i> De deux <\/i> my mom thinks I am worth everything in life so fuck you<\/i>.<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b> 12. When you are withdrawing or depositing some money at the ATM and a creepy looking dude is lurking <\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  So you\u2019re like do I hide the cash in my bra and run? Or like, hug my bag and run?<br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reactiongifs.com\/r\/ttmar.gif\"width=\"80%\"><br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <b> 13. When you are standing in a long ass queue at Zara and Forever 21 and you are calling out people who want to skip the line <\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  <i> \u201cSorry, bass ana 3ande item wahad seulement\u201d <\/i><br \/>  <br \/>  <i> \u201cEh, ma bente kenet wa2feh hon ma akhadet mahal hada\u201d <\/i>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think about it, we Lebanese not only manage to navigate the unbearable political instabilities and surprises, but we also endure a lot in our daily lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":442417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-56881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listomania"],"authorship":[108],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) 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