Won’t name names but had an interesting situation yesterday. One of the younger members of the Aussie group went out on a date with a bloke she met on a plane trip and caught up with again in Doha last week. Now the bloke was known only by his first name to her closest friends and she is of a generation who texts every couple of minutes. A bit like my children do. If fact I wrote recently about not being on our country's telephone tree and funnily enough I had been talking t oKim yesterday about communication plans for Emma over Chrissy. So there is this constant exchange of texts between this group when they are apart. Well last night the women went out and for some reason her phone was turned off (apparently the battery went flat). So by 2-00am one of her close mates got very worried and contacts others. Even I knew at 2.37am in the morning about it. I also learned at 4-05am that she got home safely. (this gave about 20 minutes to sleep before being woken for prayers then up again at 7-00 to watch the Grand Regency boys play cricket and people wonder why I sleep through the day!) This was after people had been contacted outside the country as well. Now it may seem a bit over the top but this is a potential risk when you do things on your own and don’t leave enough information with others. It was brought home this morning reading a local paper over a coffee regarding a 52 years women in a nearby emirate found beaten and paralysed in a ditch. The article was about how she needed $23,000 dirhams to fly home in a bed because of her condition as she was no use to anyone as a house maid here as she couldn’t walk.
So between 2-00am and 4.05 a couple of this woman’s mates made up some rules about cellphones (machines) for the group which appeared in my email this morning. Thought I ‘d share, while quite funny (rotting in hell and never alive to real friends are actually statements of affection) it is still quite serious. And yes she did vomit.
1. You have a responsibility to have a functioning machine at all times
2. If, for some reason this is impossible, you must provide machine contact details of people who you are cavorting with
3. If, for some reason this is impossible, you must provide cavorting friends with real friends contact details
4. If, for some reason you don't have a functioning machine, you must text from cavorting friend's machine that you are ok and having a grouse time
5. If, for some reason you don't have a functioning machine, you must let real friends know that you're having a grouse time, with machine of cavorting friend, so that real friends can also come out and have a grouse time if they choose
6. You must keep credit on your machine at all times
7. If you don't have a functioning machine you are not allowed out
8. If you don't have a functioning machine and your friends have used all their credit on their functioning machine hatching plans around getting your body home to Australia, you owe them QR100 Hala Card
9. If you don't have a functioning machine you must take your laptop out with you and only go to venues with wireless internet so that you can skype in updates
10. If you don't have a functioning machine you are dead to all friends with functioning machines
11. If you make a real friend vomit (like I just did) because of stress and worry that your machine doesn't work as real friend doesn't know if you're ok or how much fun they're having without them, then you are to be congratulated for supporting their weight loss program
12. If you make a real friend vomit for a second time (like I just did) because of stress and worry that your machine doesn't work and real friend doesn't know if you're ok or how much fun you're having without them, then you will be rewarded with support in fixing machine
13. If for some reason your machine doesn't work and real friends have put out an alert across all hemispheres of this planet, including consulate offices and you are actually alright, then you are rotting in hell to us
14. If for some reason your machine doesn't work and real friends have put out an alert across all hemispheres of this planet and you come home, find a note on your door and don't contact your real friends immediately to let them know you're alright, then you were never alive to real friends
So between 2-00am and 4.05 a couple of this woman’s mates made up some rules about cellphones (machines) for the group which appeared in my email this morning. Thought I ‘d share, while quite funny (rotting in hell and never alive to real friends are actually statements of affection) it is still quite serious. And yes she did vomit.
1. You have a responsibility to have a functioning machine at all times
2. If, for some reason this is impossible, you must provide machine contact details of people who you are cavorting with
3. If, for some reason this is impossible, you must provide cavorting friends with real friends contact details
4. If, for some reason you don't have a functioning machine, you must text from cavorting friend's machine that you are ok and having a grouse time
5. If, for some reason you don't have a functioning machine, you must let real friends know that you're having a grouse time, with machine of cavorting friend, so that real friends can also come out and have a grouse time if they choose
6. You must keep credit on your machine at all times
7. If you don't have a functioning machine you are not allowed out
8. If you don't have a functioning machine and your friends have used all their credit on their functioning machine hatching plans around getting your body home to Australia, you owe them QR100 Hala Card
9. If you don't have a functioning machine you must take your laptop out with you and only go to venues with wireless internet so that you can skype in updates
10. If you don't have a functioning machine you are dead to all friends with functioning machines
11. If you make a real friend vomit (like I just did) because of stress and worry that your machine doesn't work as real friend doesn't know if you're ok or how much fun they're having without them, then you are to be congratulated for supporting their weight loss program
12. If you make a real friend vomit for a second time (like I just did) because of stress and worry that your machine doesn't work and real friend doesn't know if you're ok or how much fun you're having without them, then you will be rewarded with support in fixing machine
13. If for some reason your machine doesn't work and real friends have put out an alert across all hemispheres of this planet, including consulate offices and you are actually alright, then you are rotting in hell to us
14. If for some reason your machine doesn't work and real friends have put out an alert across all hemispheres of this planet and you come home, find a note on your door and don't contact your real friends immediately to let them know you're alright, then you were never alive to real friends
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