9.15.2006

Taxi

"Your country?" my taxi driver yelled above the din of Islamabad's Power 99 FM screeching through his worn out speakers.
"Canada"
"You are Christian?"
"Yes"
"I too!"
And he points to a little picture of the Pope taped to the inside of his windscreen, in full view of the passenger (I had failed to notice). And that was it. I wasn't sure where to the conversation should go from there.

Before that I had been eating at a new Thai restaurant, Royal Orchid (food gets about a B, if you're reading this and might be eating in ISB soon, a B means don't bother, not at the prices they charge) here in ISB. The waiter couldn't stop smiling and ended all his sentences with "yes, please".

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