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20 People Who should go back home       

5/22/2016

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When has complaining become the core of every single conversation?
 Nowadays, whining became more of a competition; the one with most things to moan about is the one working the hardest.     
I accidentally ran into two old friends of mine at a coffee shop near my office, I have not seen them since we lived back in Jordan. At the beginning, it was a typical catching up about current news and of course, lots and lots of smoking took place on their part, Jordanians are the heaviest smokers in the region, cigarettes are such a big part of our lives that we actually use it as a time unit, a typical complaint about unpunctuality would be “you are so late I smoked half a pack waiting for you”; it is even used to measure distances, “smoke two cigarettes and you will be there”, planning for gatherings requires careful cigarette inventory forecasting, in posh funerals, we place all brands of cigarettes on a tray as a gesture of generous hospitality.      


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    Hamzah Abu Zannad
    The author is one of those people who have a lot to say but no one to say it to



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