Saturday, November 26, 2005
Alas, I Have the Same Problem
Quoting from the Arab News, The Religious Policeman reports on a Saudi women who imposed an unsual requirement on competing suitors:
In my case, I'm often told to buy, for example, a 10 ounce can of something. When I find that the cans come only in eight ounce and 12 ounce sizes, I better call for instructions or wish I did. In the days before cell phones, if I had a long list I could run through a stack of quarters clarifying instructions.The difference between the smaller and larger would often be less than 25 cents, but there would be grief aplenty were I to come home with the wrong size.
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A woman demanded from a man who asked her hand in marriage to memorize the holy Qur’an as a condition of accepting to marry him, Al-Watan reported. The 21-year-old woman said that she is not interested in money as much as she is interested in a good religious husband. The woman said that she would hold a test in which she will ask them to recite the Qur’an without a mistake.He then repeats his own wife's complaint that he can't even remember a shopping list, much less the Qu'ran. Now there's a requirement I can identify with, and one I often don't meet well myself.
In my case, I'm often told to buy, for example, a 10 ounce can of something. When I find that the cans come only in eight ounce and 12 ounce sizes, I better call for instructions or wish I did. In the days before cell phones, if I had a long list I could run through a stack of quarters clarifying instructions.The difference between the smaller and larger would often be less than 25 cents, but there would be grief aplenty were I to come home with the wrong size.
To reply, email texthepontificator at yahoo dot com.
// posted by Tex the Pontificator @ 11/26/2005 09:13:00 AM 
