A story of Cairo

Post by **PRchick** » Fri May 22, 2009 7:33 pm

We used to do this on the blue side and have, sadly, gotten away from here. Here's how it works. We start a story using Cairo as the background and incorporating people from the forum in the story. I'll start then someone adds to it and so on. A sense of humor is important.

PRchick was headed for the Egyptian Museum one day but on the plaza outside the museum, she ran into Glyphdoctor and Godness. Glyph & Godness had met up at the airport returning from trips and decided to take in the museum before Godness had to head back to Alex. Godness was still coughing from the fumigation at the airport and exclaimed "Crieky! They caught me with the fogging before I knew what was happening but when they wanted to stick that thermometer...

Post by **Horus** » Fri May 22, 2009 8:57 pm

.......... into my case and charge me customs duty on it that was the last straw! So all three ladies linked arms and set off for the museum singing "follow the festival road, follow the festival road, follow, follow, follow, follow, follow the festival road" Meanwhile Ebikatsu who had just finished a four hour camel ride around the Pyramids & Great Sphinx had heard the jolly singing. "I know that awful din from somewhere" she said to herself, it's that woman from Alex who has a pet rat, I think her name is 'Godness' or maybe even 'Goodness' but just then, the camel who had panicked after hearing the awful singing started to run amok just as ..............

Post by **PRchick** » Sat May 23, 2009 7:22 am

...the camel driver came running up, out of breath, from chasing Ebikatsu who had ridden the camel all the way from the Pyramids to the new museum thinking how fun it would be to get photos of the camel in the King Tut room to post on the forum. As PR, Goddess and Glyph rounded the corner, they heard the camel driver yell...

Post by **FABlux** » Sat May 23, 2009 9:53 am

"Stop, Stop you know how much......" They ignored him & turned the camel loose, it promptly tried to mount an image of itself reflected in a glass display cabinet, the sound of glass shattering told the four friends that some retail therapy might be safer & they left the museum .........

Post by **Ebikatsu** » Sat May 23, 2009 10:10 am

........BUT just as they were going through the scanner at the exit of the museum, a loud beeping went off. Confused the 4 looked around to see what could possibly be making it alarm and as they checked their arms for watches or other metal, a fragment of a priceless stone tablet with ancient heiroglyphs fell from under Glyphdoctors jumper to the floor

shattering on the ground into tiny fragments.
Horus's beak trembled and his 'EYE' looked hawkishly to Glyphdoctor who was by then surrounded by Museum Security personnel with large fuul sandwiches in their hands, and vacant looks on their faces...................

Post by **FABlux** » Sat May 23, 2009 1:07 pm

Glyph looked round frantically for the man who had handed her back her jumper, which she had dropped when the camel started its antics, but he was nowhere to be seen. She knew she could never prove her innocence so she bolted towards the door, closely followed by Ebikatsu & Goddess. The guards, having stopped to put down their sandwiches, only managed to grab PR by the arm as the others fled and ....

Post by **Horus** » Sat May 23, 2009 2:10 pm

.........the arm fell to the floor! luckily it was only a handbag, designed to look like a real arm and a knee, in fact it was a genuine Armani handbag

The startled guards ran away in terror thinking that some sort of evil magic was being practiced. "Quick, head for the bazaar" cried Glyph, I know a man who has a shop and he sells...............

Post by **HEPZIBAH** » Sat May 23, 2009 2:38 pm

.....all sorts of Egyptian lotions, potions and other mysterious things that only the ancients are commonly thought to have known about. I'm sure he'll have something that will help get us out of this mess. Off they rushed to the bazaar, barely pausing to take a breath, when suddenly.............

Post by **Ebikatsu** » Sat May 23, 2009 3:16 pm

..............ROOBABAKYA!..........ROOBABAKYA! shouted the wizzened old man from his cart, pulling out of Shar'a Khan Ali Baba.

The group stopped dead .
As the cart wheels ran over FabLux's open toed steel toe cap hiking and desert safari boots, HurghadaPat reached for her arm to drag her free when to the astonishment of the rest of the group the arm slid out of the sleeve and ...............................

Post by **Horus** » Sat May 23, 2009 5:15 pm

........ she was whisked up onto the old mans cart. BBlux starred in disbelief as Fabby was thrust head first into a large Ali Baba pot, her steel toe capped desert boots vainly thrashing the air as the driver raised his fingers in a victory salute and once more uttered that blood curdling cry, ROOBABAKYA! ROOBABAKYA! which is the Egyptian for 'Up Your's'. Luckily Hepzibah, who had been visiting friends in Cairo for the day was in a passing cab on her way back to the airport. "Stop" she cried at the startled driver and grabbing the wheel swung it into the rear wheel of the cart causing it to stop suddenly. The wizened old fakir started to run off down the road, "stop that fakir" cried BBlux as the pot started to topple of the cart and...............................

Post by **Ebikatsu** » Sat May 23, 2009 5:25 pm

..................the old fakir had unhitched Blossom the donkey and by the time he had reached the corner of the street another old fakir was busy dismantling the cart for firewood.
The driver of the taxi obviously used to the old 1935 Peugeot rambling off in the wrong direction grabbed back the steering and swerved it round the cart as Hepzibah exited the car with a huge leap and fell flat on her face in Blossoms last meal................

Post by **PRchick** » Sat May 23, 2009 5:29 pm

...PR, who by now had caught up with the group and wondered where BBLux, Fablux and HurghadaPat had come from, quickly threw her arm/knee/Armani purse like a frizbee at the escaping fakir, hitting him in the knees and bringing him down in front of...

Post by **New Gal** » Sat May 23, 2009 5:32 pm

PRchick wrote:...PR, who by now had caught up with the group and wondered where BBLux, Fablux and HurghadaPat had come from, quickly threw her arm/knee/Armani purse like a frizbee at the escaping fakir, hitting him in the knees and bringing him down in front of...

New Gal and Hurghada Lady who both took off their heels and began to...

Post by **Glyphdoctor** » Sat May 23, 2009 6:13 pm

offer them to the Robabekia guy in exchange for Fablux's release but he told them with swine flu having led to his family's pigs being hauled off to slaughter he planned to fatten up Fablux in order to...

Post by **PRchick** » Sat May 23, 2009 6:20 pm

...sell her on the white slave market, which apparently has a great need for bookkeepers.

All this activity caught the eye of several Tourist Police officers who were watching Bollywood music videos in a nearby coffee shop. They...

Post by **HEPZIBAH** » Sat May 23, 2009 7:27 pm

.....listened attentively to the tale of woe, looked at each other as if about to consult each others opinions and then fell about in hysterical laughter. They could'nt understand a word the silly foreigners were telling them but had seen all the action as the electricty had gone out interrupting their videos. Regaining their composure the Tourist Police looked at each other again, shrugged their shoulders and nodded in silent agreement - time to order another cup of chai before the end of shift. Meanwhile, realising that their protestations were doing no good our intrepid group decided ........

Post by **Ebikatsu** » Sat May 23, 2009 8:33 pm

to do a bit of knitting ,while they thought of a plan, and swiftly had a multicolour blanket plained and purled to give to the orphanage in Luxor if they ever managed to get home.
Sitting by the side of the road trying to disentangle one of her Manolo Blahniks from some acid green 4 ply, New Gal..................

Post by **New Gal** » Sat May 23, 2009 8:58 pm

Ebikatsu wrote:to do a bit of knitting ,while they thought of a plan, and swiftly had a multicolour blanket plained and purled to give to the orphanage in Luxor if they ever managed to get home.
Sitting by the side of the road trying to disentangle one of her Manolo Blahniks from some acid green 4 ply, New Gal..................

giggled as she plotted her revenge, Her mind whirring and whizzing with all the evil plans.

She looked up from her strappy web leather heels just in time to see Hepzibah and Ebikatsu running towards her, shouting and gesturing towards...

Post by **HEPZIBAH** » Sat May 23, 2009 9:26 pm

the taxi which Hepzibah had so recently abandoned. "Hey" yelled Ebikatsu "Stop that taxi". Turning to Hepzibah she..............

Post by **PRchick** » Sat May 23, 2009 11:43 pm

said, "we've got to find that camel or they're going to charge me for it!" So the whole group, PR, Hepzi, Ebikatsu, Fab, BLux, Glyph, Godness, HurghadaPat, and New Gal piled into the tiny cab only to discover the driver was Horus! "Come on!", he said...