Where Am I?

Two things are for certain in the Arab World.

1.Nothing will ever be done when they say it will be done.
2.When they finally get around to doing it, it for sure will not be done efficiently.

Keep these things in mind.

Where Am I part one.
So we don't drink water from the tap. It ain't as bad as Mexico, but it's no spring water either!

Because of this we have bottled water delivered to the house in 5 gallon bottles. When you run out you call them and they bring more. This could take 3 hours or three days depending on the wind, or the weather, or the alignment of the stars.

This week we ran out of water and I called the guy and he said he would be there in a little bit, so I figured by tomorrow.

Ten minutes later a guy is at my door with water.

Where am I? This ain't the Middle East I know.

Where Am I part two.
So we ordered internet on Monday. First the telephone company has to come make sure the line is installed properly or run a new line. They told me that it would be done sometime the later part of next week.

The kicker is after the telephone company comes, I have to call the internet company and after three or four days they will send someone out to give me my user name and password. You can imagine in Arab time how long that meant.

So we were planning on getting internet for Christmas.

Wednesday about 7pm I get a call from the telephone technician and he was wandering if now would be a good time to come set up the internet line. I told him sure, so an hour later he shows up and fiddles around for about 30 minutes, hooks up a modem, gives me a username and password, pulls up Yahoo.com and is out the door.

I sat at my desk staring at my computer. Yahoo? It can't be. Then B walks in and says, "Is that the internet? We have the internet?" All I could say was, "Yeah, I guess so. Maybe he messed up."

Again, where am I?

Things done in a timely matter and semi-efficiently?