{"id":64780,"date":"2023-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/64780\/10-thoughts-you-have-when-your-car-breaks-down-in-lebanon"},"modified":"2023-01-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T00:00:00","slug":"10-thoughts-you-have-when-your-car-breaks-down-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/64780\/10-thoughts-you-have-when-your-car-breaks-down-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Thoughts You Have When Your Car Breaks Down In Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all been there. You jump into your beloved car, put the key in, but it doesn&#8217;t turn on. Or it turns on but doesn\u2019t move. Or it moves but doesn\u2019t turn on. Horrible, horrible times. Here are 10 thoughts a Lebanese person will have at exactly that moment:<\/p>\n<p>  <b>1. Meen 3am yetala3<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>  Do I look stupid? This is embarrassing. Stop embarrassing us car, please. Let me pull a <i>wtf is going on<\/i> and look around as if I\u2019m doing something.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.tenor.com\/mVPgKMQFIfsAAAAM\/looking-around-guilty.gif\" width=\"70%\"> <\/p>\n<p>  <b>2. I will fix it through sheer willpower<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>  Turn on, turn off. Turn on, turn off. Turn on, wait, turn off. This car is definitely an Aries.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media3.giphy.com\/media\/f4nI3k88tF6tk7HKij\/giphy.gif\" width=\"70%\"> <\/p>\n<p>  <b>3. Meen darabne 3en<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>  Is it the neighbors, khodarje, the dekanje, or the OMTanje? Everyone hates me, I am God\u2019s most cursed soldier.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media4.giphy.com\/media\/26xBwtwfmWCeo3E9a\/giphy.gif\" width=\"70%\"> <\/p>\n<p>  <b>4. Meen badde odrob<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>  Neighbors, khodarje, dekanje, aw OMTanje?<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media4.giphy.com\/media\/jJGXjpa6OUWmA\/giphy.gif\" width=\"70%\"> <\/p>\n<p>  <b>5. Shu ba3mel hala2? <\/b> <\/p>\n<p>  I\u2019ve been in this situation many times before (BMWs), but what do I do now?! Why is life not like a GTA game?<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media4.giphy.com\/media\/ZfMtXSJ9oGS1Aysib0\/giphy.gif\" width=\"70%\"> <\/p>\n<p>  <b>6. What does a mechanic even do?<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>  The mechanic could say this needs 5 days or 1 day, $1,000 or $50, and I would just nod. I don\u2019t know what the fuck is going on up in the mystical lands of car repair. <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.tenor.com\/aEbRRiginLwAAAAC\/mechanic-hammer.gif\" width=\"70%\"> <\/p>\n<p>  <b>7. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>  We have moved to the anger stage of grief.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media3.giphy.com\/media\/11tTNkNy1SdXGg\/giphy.gif\" width=\"70%\"> <\/p>\n<p>  <b>8. Ayre bel dawle<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>  Leh la2?<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.tenor.com\/GQIVLfmHSLAAAAAC\/saad-hariri.gif\" width=\"70%\"> <\/p>\n<p>  <b>9. Leh ana leh?<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>  Leh el siyarat bas byentez3o bel manate2 el [tab3eetiye]?<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.tenor.com\/kQgyJlbytv0AAAAC\/balotelli-atfuraxx.gif\" width=\"70%\"> <\/p>\n<p>  <b>10. Why do we even use cars?<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>  Has anyone actually stopped and thought about this? We have multi-ton murder machines just casually driving up and down asphalt in the city. Most deaths a year are a result of car accidents, they cost so much, and they keep you stuck in traffic for hours at a time. This might be the most inefficient and stupidest mode of transport we could have. Someone please deal with this.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.giphy.com\/media\/8F3bK4aq1tCo0TLkf7\/giphy.gif\" width=\"70%\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all been there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":424573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-64780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listomania"],"authorship":[74],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>10 Thoughts You Have When Your Car Breaks Down In Lebanon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We\u2019ve all been there.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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