And now for something completely different...
From one of my favourite middle-eastern blogs (Rantings of a Sandmonkey) at http://www.sandmonkeyblog.com/
This is an actual true story that was reported in the egyptian newspapers:
A Taxi driver was driving in Cairo at night when this old man who had a white beard and was dressed all in white stopped him and asked him to take him to a certain destination. The Taxi driver agreed and started conversing with the old guy, who was both friendly and courteous. Two other men signaled to the taxi to stop and the driver decided to pick them up as well, since the destination was on the way of the old guy's destination. After they boarded the taxi and he started driving again, he leaned on the old guy and said :" I hope you don;t mind me picking them up!", to which the old man said "Not at all, they are on my way anyway!". And that's when the 2 guys sitting in the back asked the driver: "Hey, driver, who are you talking to exactly?"
The driver replied, "to the old man sitting next to me of course!"
The two guys in the back looked all confused and said to the driver: "But the seat next to you is empty! There is no one sitting there!"
The astonished driver looked at the old man sitting next to him, who leaned over and with a strong hollow voice said: "They are right. They can not see me!"
The driver, getting all nervous, asked: "Why can't they see you?"
"Cause I am Azrael, the angel of death, and I am suppsoed to collect your soul in the next 10 minutes!", the man replied calmly. "If I were you, I would find the nearest mosque and go pray to god to forgive me for my sins right now!"
The man, terrified out of his wits to be sitting next to the angel of death and knowing that he is going to die in the next few minutes, stops the car at the nearest mosque he sees, runs out of it, and heads inside where he starts praying profiously for god's firgiveness. After being done with his prayers, he feels all calm and collected and ready to meet his maker, and steps out of the mosque to head back to his car and his impending doom…
..to find that the car, along with the two passengers and the man who said he was Azreal, was no longer standing there!
According to the papers, this is the third guy who fell for the same con in Egypt, leaving his car in the care of three strangers after one of them convinces him that he is the angel of death, and it was used before in both Saudi and in Jordan!
This is an actual true story that was reported in the egyptian newspapers:
A Taxi driver was driving in Cairo at night when this old man who had a white beard and was dressed all in white stopped him and asked him to take him to a certain destination. The Taxi driver agreed and started conversing with the old guy, who was both friendly and courteous. Two other men signaled to the taxi to stop and the driver decided to pick them up as well, since the destination was on the way of the old guy's destination. After they boarded the taxi and he started driving again, he leaned on the old guy and said :" I hope you don;t mind me picking them up!", to which the old man said "Not at all, they are on my way anyway!". And that's when the 2 guys sitting in the back asked the driver: "Hey, driver, who are you talking to exactly?"
The driver replied, "to the old man sitting next to me of course!"
The two guys in the back looked all confused and said to the driver: "But the seat next to you is empty! There is no one sitting there!"
The astonished driver looked at the old man sitting next to him, who leaned over and with a strong hollow voice said: "They are right. They can not see me!"
The driver, getting all nervous, asked: "Why can't they see you?"
"Cause I am Azrael, the angel of death, and I am suppsoed to collect your soul in the next 10 minutes!", the man replied calmly. "If I were you, I would find the nearest mosque and go pray to god to forgive me for my sins right now!"
The man, terrified out of his wits to be sitting next to the angel of death and knowing that he is going to die in the next few minutes, stops the car at the nearest mosque he sees, runs out of it, and heads inside where he starts praying profiously for god's firgiveness. After being done with his prayers, he feels all calm and collected and ready to meet his maker, and steps out of the mosque to head back to his car and his impending doom…
..to find that the car, along with the two passengers and the man who said he was Azreal, was no longer standing there!
According to the papers, this is the third guy who fell for the same con in Egypt, leaving his car in the care of three strangers after one of them convinces him that he is the angel of death, and it was used before in both Saudi and in Jordan!
posted by Somnambulist57 at
12:19 PM
1 Comments:
A very interesting and amusing story, but surely not true? Are people really that gullible?
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