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Wives
Wives undergo a transformation in Kuwait as well - usually they get bigger through not enough exercise although in some cases getting out of bed late to get to Costa Coffee is hardly an aerobic exercise. (Lots of women do significant exercise but the ones who go from size 14 to size xx clearly don't). Not a nice thing to say but true from what I can see. The shorter distances to the shops etc would make them more mobile you would think but no, they become greater sloths than they ever were and take their Pajero's everywhere including the 5 minutes down the road. It is not that the weather is always hot as they do this in the cool season as well. Once I walked back from the shops and still made it to the house at the same time as the lady in question. As roads in Kuwait often mean you have to go around the houses to get where you want to go, sometimes walking is better than driving but for the lazy spouses this is not an option.
The famous British Ladies Society (BLS) caters for all British "ladies" of course but as with communism, every one is equal but some are more equal than others. New members are usually sorted on arrival into "suitable" groups based on what their husbands do strangely enough. One new arrival considered this as BS and described her husband as a butcher. The established crew on her table thought this was a touch common by all accounts and could not understand how such a man could take regular foreign trips for his work. To this day I'm not sure those Essex girls-away-from-home know that they were being taking for a ride.
Then there was the wife who would only fly business class because she felt "claustrophobic" in economy or where the rest of her family were sitting. Being too big for the seats is no crime but leaving the poor husband to manage the children every time is a bit much.
How about the wife who couldn't understand why her dishwasher was so dirty? A message was sent to her neighbour by her maid to her neighbour's maid to the neighbour to ask how their dishwasher was so "clean". Clearly putting unscrapped plates into the machine does not make it easy on the dishwashing machine and that was the answer she got and did not like. Being lazy in the first place makes trouble down the road if you are this type of person. Why the circuitous route for the question? Some petty BS falling out with the neighbours who still have their uses when you want something.
Then there are the wives who think they are something special in the hygiene department and from what I have heard they are - worse. When madam starts leaving her clothes AND sanitary stuff on the floor for the maid to clear up you know they have a screw loose. When asked why, it is because madam pays the housemaid to do whatever jobs require doing and if that requires disposing of the remians of her monthly problems then so be it. Animals and better behaved than these women.
Kuwait IS a safe place for women and all the usual rules of looking after yourself apply here as anywhere although it is often the women you have to watch out for. Two blokes went out for a meal, shall we say number 1 who had a girlfriend from the East while number 2 was married with the wife in UK. Apparently number 1 did not feel well during the meal and went to the toilet. Some time later when he still hadn't reappeared number 2 decided to do the chivilrous thing and take the girlfriend home. Someone who knew number 2 saw him leave and later phoned his wife in UK about her husband leaving with another woman...you know, it is obvious isn't it. Needless to say, number 2 was a bit unhappy with the way things turned out and when he catches up with this person (assumed to be a woman I gather) then things will be said. As Mulder says, trust no one. |
