I want to go to Egypt, Cairo specifically, but I hate people getting all up in my face.
I’ve been to places where they approach you and bother you but will leave it you tell them you are not interested. I heard in Egypt they will insist even after you tell them to go away and I’m worried I will end up headbutting some Egyptian seller/scammer and get into very serious problems.
Should I not go?
There are many stories of tourists not being prepared for the environment and culture of their travel destination getting into serious trouble.
If you are worried about headbutting someone I’d vote for not going. The local authorities will most often be on the side of the locals in many countries.
If Egypt is your first northern-african/middle-eastern country to visit it might be tough. I’d suggest Jordan or possibly Marocco.
People in Morocco were more exhausting than Cairo in my opinion. Jordan or Oman probably the most relaxed.
Jordan is definitely the easier choice. But interesting! Didn’t know Oman is also an easier destination!
Oman was nice. As middle eastern countries go, it was by far the most pleasant of the trip, and I’d put it up there with the best port visits we had.
Thanks for the tip, will have to definitely plan a visit there.
I saw a guy recently wearing both a scowl and a badge that said ‘please be kind to me I have autism’. That might work to some degree. Maybe replace ‘have autism’ with something more appropriate like ‘have difficulty restraining myself from physical violence’.
OP is Raven from Snow Crash.
He better watch out for that dentata next time!
Strong reference, but it makes me feel like my comment was cruel. I didn’t mean it as such.
It’s not that I have a problem with restraint is that if I have to tell a person 3 or 4 times to back off and they keep pushing me into a metaphororical corner I can lash out.
I never had any problems with violence before other than the normal teenager bullshit because I just remove myself from the situation, but I know myself, and I know of I’m encroached on I will probably lash out.
Everyone else here has already given reasonable suggestions, so drag will give you a fun suggestion.
You should learn to swear in Egyptian. That way, you can tell people to fuck off. You won’t have to use violence to get your anger across. You could learn some really vicious insults about their mothers, too. Just make sure they’re the kind of swears that get people to go away instead of starting fights.
Ya let’s go to a foreign country and learn nothing about their culture or language other than insults. Great fucking advice.
People like you are why this world fucking sucks.
This is such a boring comment. Soooooo boring. The guy obviously said he was going to give shitty advice.
Let’s lean into this more… Just fucking get into the fights. Start training now before you get over there so you’ve got fresh hands for the fights.
Oh and also still learn the insults so that way you can smack these fuckers down, and then insult them while they’re factory resetting in the dirt.
Mr Rogers knew you could do better.
