Worst experience at the Giza Pyramids

Helloo All....

You will wonder why I am writing such a title... but really I was sooo furious and angry of what happened with us in OUR COUNTRY....

As a matter of fact, I felt really humiliated yesterday.. it was one of the worst experiences I have ever had... that is why I decided to write about it... so that people who faced such an attitude and experience, know that the normal Egyptian person could suffer and be treated like "shit"... excuse my french hehe...

Yesterday, me and my personal trainer (rehabilitator and personal trainer to recover from my previous accident), went to the Giza Pyramids... since there is a lot of sand there, so I can better train my leg....

We went there yesterday.. like normal people visiting the pyramids... just to have some sports and do exercise, then come back home...

We parked the car, my personal trainer took the initiative, and went to but two tickets (of course Egyptian price.. 2 LE each).

On the gate of the pyramids, a guy, wearing normal clothes, approached us and he asked us in ARABIC what is our nationality (of course we answered him back in Egyptian slang language that we are Egyptians).. it seemed that this was not enough for him to prove that we are EGYPTIANS... (although he was speaking Egyptian slang language, and he does not know any other language)..
I simply answered... "if we speak Egyptian slang language.. so definitely we are Egyptians" simple and Easy... does not need any intelligence to figure it out.

Anyway, another guy approached my car (again with normal clothes and no sign of him being a policeman), and he asked me of my driving license... I simply answered that I do not know him and need to have a prove that he is a policeman...
"In such a country you can never guarantee who is who, unless there is a proof... and everyone doubts everyone"

Anyway, he told me "ok"... since you said that... I want to check your car... meaning that he wants to scan and screen it himself...

I told him I do not mind, since this is the instructions they have.... apparently it was not the instrusctions they have... it is the guy's instructions... he did not like my face or so... so he started treating us like criminals... not only this... HE ENTERED MY CAR AND CHECKED EVERYTHING IN IT... AND NOT ONLY THIS... HE WAS TALKING IN A REALLY RUDE WAY... AND GIVING ME ORDERS TO... "SUCH AS" OPEN THIS AND DO THAT...ETC.

In the same time... I saw other cars... not having the same treatment... so it is apparently what the police officer sees, and not by rule...

I really felt sooo offended... I am in my country and I am treated like shit... where if I only bought a foreigners ticket with 40 or 50LE... I would have been treated like a queen..

Can you believe how Egyptians are treated and humiliated in their country...

This assures me that whenever I need to go to a public place... I should privatize it for myself hehe.. meaning.. that I should call the connections and friends I know there so that I get the royal treatment... or at least the normal one...

How on earth does that happen??? How do Egyptians accept to be treated as an inferior race in their own country, while foreigners who treat us badly when we go to their country, we treat them as a superior race.!!!!!!!

Need a real explanation for this...

This incident makes me translate it like the following: I am going to my house... and I find that the concierge who has the house key "whom I am paying his salary", in this incident it is the "taxes I am paying" is being rude... not only this.. but he thinks he owns the keys to heaven and is controlling it...

I think this is ridiculous....

We lack respect... we lack manners... we lack professionalism... and I do not think that such a caliber of people, who was in front of the Pyramids gate, is the caliber that should represent us in front of the world visitors, who are coming to visit us...
As an Egyptian... I protest bad manners and less respect to each others... I have the right to be treated like a human being, with respect and in a descent way...
I am not talking about myself only... I am talking about the normal local person... he had dignity before and he is now deprived from even being treated as a human being...

The problem is not in the police officer who was by the pyramids gate only... the problem lies in the attitude in general... the way people deal with each others... the way people use their power for just controlling people, and not for applying the rules...

I bet you... this police officer without his id... is nothing... but he is using it against people... not with them or at the service of the rules and regulation and general benefit...

Is this what we want to have??? Is this what we want to be??? are we subliminal and irrespective to each others like that??? Does our power give us the excuse to mistreat each others????
I do not think so....

The only thing that I can say is "Ya 7'ossara Ya Masr"... I am really sad and ashamed that we reached this...

Please give me your comments and what do you think of this... or just let me know if you faced such an incident before...