Secret Santa.
What was I thinking?!
I spent all afternoon Monday searching for one simple bag of coffee grounds to give my designee. My demands were not unreasonable: nothing fancy, just not NastCafé. What ensued was a wild goose chase around the entire City Stars complex: Beano's, Costa Coffee, Cilantro, The Coffee Company, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, and two Starbucks. My best efforts at communication in Arabic degenerated into gestures and sounds meant to imitate a coffee grinder. Yesterday, I trekked to the Korba Starbucks, hoping for the best. All was for naught.
JUST. GROUND. COFFEE. You would have thought I was searching for the Holy Grail. Welcome to the Egyptian experience. What one presumes to be a quick, half-hour errand is sure to evolve into an exasperating multi-day ordeal.
What was I thinking?!
I spent all afternoon Monday searching for one simple bag of coffee grounds to give my designee. My demands were not unreasonable: nothing fancy, just not NastCafé. What ensued was a wild goose chase around the entire City Stars complex: Beano's, Costa Coffee, Cilantro, The Coffee Company, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, and two Starbucks. My best efforts at communication in Arabic degenerated into gestures and sounds meant to imitate a coffee grinder. Yesterday, I trekked to the Korba Starbucks, hoping for the best. All was for naught.
JUST. GROUND. COFFEE. You would have thought I was searching for the Holy Grail. Welcome to the Egyptian experience. What one presumes to be a quick, half-hour errand is sure to evolve into an exasperating multi-day ordeal.
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1 comment:
Addictions are pretty tough stuff!
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