The Dubai Chronicles

Thursday, August 03, 2006

"garhoud" and paintball

after office, we got excited that we're going to play "war games" and it's our first time here in dubai. our friend invited us over to play with his peers near in wonderland (better remember this word...).

since it's rush hour, we took a taxi near the rydges hotel in satwa. we instructed the driver to go to "wonderland" near the grand hyatt hotel. he agreed. while driving, he informed us that he's taking a faster route to avoid traffic. we agreed. from satwa we took mankhool road then took a u-turn towards trade center (like halfway going back to ease traffic) then towards oud-metha. feeling suspicious after his turn towards the dubai creek instead going to wafi city (he thinks that we don't know where we going) we asked him again that where we going.

"aren't we suppose to go to wafi city instead?"

"no. too much traffic. this is the way," he said.

"where will you turn?" we inquired.

"there's a u-turn."

with the meter's gone up to dhs22 (instead the normal bill from satwa to grand hyatt of dhs13-15) we past up the wonderland from other side and crossed the garhoud bridge. feeling sure that he doesn't know where we going and feeling agitated, i asked him again on where we going.

"you told me garhoud..."

upon hearing it, that blew my fuse... "who told you to go to garhoud?! we're going to wonderland not garhoud...."

he cursed and kept insisting that we're going to garhoud.

trying to keep my control i told him to take the next u-turn that cost us a lot (dhs28) and go back. feeling irritated, he sped up and turned off his meter...

... upon arriving, felt the inconvenience and pissed the way he reacted to his fault we gave him dhs15 but demanded more as per last meter reading. we argued that it his fault and he closed the meter for that matter that he threatened to call police.

that favored more on our side. he called the police to come and i called his company to file a complaint and reported the incident.

leaving him the parking, he waited for police and can't wait for the officer's reaction on the hassle going there and then arguing for dhs13 when he just turned off his meter.

as per meter sticker... "your ride is free when the meter is not operational."

ditto.


releasing the tension, we continued our "pursuit games" and enjoyed with litte red spots on my arms.

note: i didn't bring my camera since it was dark and not to risk of any damage or theft. a time to relax, right? :)

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