The Backpacker

It was a terrible choice to make...and fast.

1. Ignore the traffic signal

2. Ignore Geroge Michael and his Careless Whispers 

3. Ignore the very appealing bloke in a 4WD on my left. 

The traffic signal turned green, the horns continued to blare...so you know what choice I finally made.

Now why did I do that? Oh, handsome fellows in 4WD always have that extra-appeal, especially when there is a dimple at the corner of their bow-like lips

(Here I will beg you not to take me seriously. For as far as I am concerned, there is only one man in a 4WD that can actually make my heart skip several beats and he aint got a dimple)

I lowered my windows, turned off the music and smiled. The bloke smiled. He had the look of someone very nearly lost and had no time to correct that mistake. Remember, we were at the signal near the Dry Docks (coming from Al Diyafah Road) and turning into Jumeirah.

Where is the Al Wasl Road, he boomed.

He had a disticnt foreign accent. No, not Arabic, not Asian, not even French.  

Oh, said I, suddenly horror struck. He had missed the Al Wasl Road. There was no way he could backtrack, owing to the traffic and there was hardly any time to explain how he could get there through Jumeirah.  And there was no way I could go away leaving him sititng at the signal either.

At the signal, there was no U-turn to boot. Then I was struck buy another, more devilish thought.

"Oh, quitely slip into that road which does not allow the U-turn and double back a short distance past the gas station and take the first right."

He waved a cheery thumbs up. partners in crime! Behind me, quite a number of cars piled up, horns blaring, the light had already turned green. But withlittle care I held my ground and grinned.

It was great fun to break rules at times. But to have someone involved in doing the same was even better. The dimpled, lost, driver od the 4WD zoomed into the no-entry road, with little care or fear about breaking rules, and I on my part was excited over the prospect of having abetted a traffic violation.

But heck, it was so evil and exciting!!