As simple as buying a car

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I got my new car last night. Mercedes C200 2007. I thought we were getting it from marka, a place down in the desert (about 45 min drive down mountains) where all the people are either street-like, rude, or backminded. Have a look at
google maps.

You'll see on the bottom left the orange 'learners' car where you take the car tests :) Try zooming out and figuring out where you are.. It took me a while.

So i took Helen with me.. Turns out we were just going to sign some papers.. It was an experiance/shock of a lifetime for her to see two barbaric idiots there.. (note: i'm talking about two specific people, not the whole community...) Just in the parking lot my brother in law and i had a fight with 2 other schmucks because they took two parking spaces and looked down on us as if we're nothing. When the police came, they tried to put the blame on us instead of1) Write THEM a ticket for parking wrongly, which any other policeman should do by law2) Close the problem.

Anyway, when done, they said we'll get the car from the dealer in the city at 3. So we sat in the house until 4.30 until we got fed up.. It was our 1 year anniversary of meeting, fa i didnt want to spoil the day or what's apparently being left of it, so i took mom's car (bmw) and had ice cream with her in a nice area to stop the car and enjoy the view of the mountains.

Of course, the BM got trapped on rocks, and i had to do a lot of scraping to get it out.. when i checked a few meters ahead, i found a lot of liquid on the bottom.. driving more, i noticed the fuel number is going down 1km every half a minute or so...

I mean it was either the fuel, or my piss from panic down there.. probably a mixture of bothbut turns out it was just water, and the fuel was changing because i'm going up and down with the car and the meter was accurate up to + or - 10km.

Went to the mercedis dealer around 6, they said they need half an hour for the car to arrive (pressure!!! suspense...) Went to Tahboub Kitchens (they sell kitchens, and the owner is a close friend of mine from school) to meet the family, and saw three of my good ol' friends that i haven't seen for 7 years. Fa we all chat for a bit before we left.

Finally, when we go back to merc, as we are going in the door to shout at them around 7, we hear a BEEEP BEEP BEEEP!! behind us. The truck arrived and there was the car!fa we take it back, go driving helen and i, and go to Buddabar in Royal for dinner.. A nice asian (chinese, japanese, thai, indonesian, malasian, etc...) restaurant in a HUGE hotel (7th floor) overlooking the city.

and now here i am at work trying to make it through a Sunday morning with 10 hours left until i sign our :)

Stay tuned, I'll upload some pics tonight.

Edit 20070304: Some are offended at my choice of words, particularly "barbaric idiots". Let me clarify something since a lot of the readers here are foreign and might take it the wrong way.

I didn't mean that everyone there are barbaric idiots, and i certainly didn't mean to offend any locals and Jordanians. I was referring to those two schmucks that nearly sent us to jail because of their mistakes, and the way they looked down on us just because they are "from family X" which means they have a bigger penis than we do. I apologize for any confusion that might have happened, and have amended it above.