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[QUOTE]Originally posted by *Dalia*: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by nevermind: [qb] Interestingly I've never had any harrassment and only positive ex with drivers but maybe because I move around in Cairo so seldom, and then I select my drivers by "gut feeling", meaning that if I do not like the face or the conversation manner, then I simply do not take it. [/qb][/QUOTE]I have moved in and around Cairo in taxis a lot for years and have very few experiences of harassment. Given the fact that I complain about the harassment a lot and get irritated easily, I think that's a good thing. :) I had a few drivers trying to get my phone number, or to flirt with me, or getting too personal in a conversation, but I have never been touched, abducted, experienced a masturbating driver or anything of that kind. I had some very unpleasant experiences with drivers, but those were always about money, not about sexual harassment of any kind. I had a driver trying to follow me up to my apartment because he wasn't happy with what I payed. I had another one following me across a crowded bridge and trying to rip my clothes, arguments about not having change for a 50 LE note when the fare is something like 12 LE, and it's 4 a.m., no store open to get some change ... stuff like that. But no explicit sexual harassment. Usually, I get in the taxi, say "assalaum alaykum" and make a few short remarks about the weather, the destination, the traffic or whatever. :D Although my Arabic is not that great, I can communicate about those things well and with very little accent. So the driver is immediately aware of the fact that I'm not a tourist or khawageya who doesn't know her way around. That means, he will only try the things he will try with Egyptians too and not give me the special tourist treatment or ask me out or anything like that. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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