Which reminds me…
In the West Bank city of Nablus, civil servant Mohammed Daraghmeh said he had MBC blocked at home so his kids couldn’t watch, but the family vowed to watch it at an uncle’s house and he backed down.
I laughed out loud reading this just now … It reminded me of that one evening when I was visiting my parents back home this summer … We had guests over (thats always so much fun, I tell you! Especially guests who over stay their welcome.) and I guess it was time for Noor to come on, but they wouldn’t have been able to make it back to their homes in time so they asked if we can turn to MBC.
My father said we don’t have MBC, that he discontinued this channel. All puzzled, I looked at him and said: No, we have it. I had it turned on earlier in the day. He looked at me and said: No Iman, we don’t have it. I discontinued it the other day. Still not realizing why he was saying that, I said: No, really we have it…here, if you give me the remote, I’ll show you…and so I got up to grab the remote from him…that’s when he gave me his infamous look that has this utterly unique ability to make me pee in my pants. That’s when I understood that he simply did not want to turn to MBC because he does not want to have to sit their and endure watching stupid Noor! But his reasons have nothing to do with not wanting kids watching it!
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