I and my family were in this oppressed country about 5 years ago. Christianity was not allowed to be practiced. No bibles are to be seen that whole deal. Well my dad was an underground pastor, so kinda risky business. One particular time my dad had a shipment of bibles come in that he needed to go pick up. The shipments always came to this secure compound where we had a contact. This contact would bring us to the gate, get us past security and then we had no more checkpoints, it would just be a 2 hour drive to our home city. Well on this day the contact got us in, loaded our car with bibles then got us cleared by bringing us back out of that compound. We started our drive home. About 45 minutes later, we see cars backed up. My dad rolls down his window and asks the car beside what the deal is. Turns out there had been a bomb threat in an oil refinery nearby and they had set up a checkpoint for local terrorists. Since it was a very conservative muslim country, my dad knew that once the officials saw that my mom, me and my sister were in the car, they would let us pass. They dont usually deal with anything that has to do with women. Well the closer we got, we see that they are really hardcore serious about it this time, because they are making everyone get out of their cars in order to search it first. Ok little sidenote here. First if you are found having a Bible they make you read it to see if it is in your language. So having a bible in your own language is one thing. They charge a ridiculously huge fine and toss the Bible, then you're free to go but under surveilance. If you cant read the Bible, that means you are getting it for someone else, which entitles you to the fine, the Bible get's tossed and about 100 lashes (like a prison flogging) and prison term for about 2 months or so. Now if you are caught with an arabic Bible, regardless of if you can read it or not, they assume you are trying to convert a muslim to a christian and the punishment is instant beheading. No trial, no nothing, you are killed instantly. Well Arabic Bibles are very very very (notice the verys) hard to get, but on that particualar day, my dad had hit the motherload because for the first time they had been able to obtain Arabic bibles. Not the first time ever ofcourse, but the first time my dad was able to obtain them. Well so you can see our dilemma now. So my dad sees that they are checking it thoroughly and knows he's a dead man. I'm 10 years old and sitting in the back seat with my sister (who was 14 at that time) and we both have bibles under our seats. The trunk is packed with them as well. All in different languages and some arabic Bibles as well. My dad turns around and starts telling me, mom and my sister, that he loves us very much. He says that he is not afraid to die, but we must never give out the name of the contact. (they'll want to know where he got these many Bibles right?) He says that they will torture him in front of our eyes and we must still never tell. I was crying by now. I mean that's some scary stuff. And I am a total daddy's girl, he means the world to me. Who would i wrestle with? who would feed me food lovingly even though I am quite old enough to feed myself? I know there were bigger problems at that time but this is what was going through my mind. Well it becomes our turn. The officers look worn out. There were 3 of them. One who was in charge was standing a little farther off talking into his walkie-talkie. The other two are monitoring the checks. They look inside, see the 3 females, talk amongst themselves and decide they just want to look in the trunk. They ask my dad to pop the trunk. The trunk still has bibles now remember. My dad reaches over and hit the button in the glove department. The trunk creaks but does not open. My dad hits it again, nothing. Now the two officials are getting mad. It is atleast 140 degrees hot out there and this is not what they want to be doing in the middle of a hot day checking 100 cars. So I can understand their frustration. One of them is cursing like crazy and kicking the trunk with all his might willing it to open but it wont. Our car was kinda old by the way lol. The other official tells my dad to get out of the car and open it manually with his key. My dad opens his car door and places one foot out, the third official (who's charge and was standing farther off in his walkie-talkie) rushes over and demands what the heck is going on in Arabic. He is screaming at the top of his lungs asking his officials why there is a man getting out of his car at this circumstance. He's screaming at them how dangerous it would be if he(my dad the civilian and man in question) had a gun or worse the bomb. At this point my dad meekly (emphasis on the meekly) asks if he should stay in his car. The officer in charge curses at him and says "YES! staying your effing as in the car and get the effing hell out of my face!" So my dad got in, hit the accelerator and got us out of there. He didnt even remember to buckle up until later.
Everytime I think of that story now, I make sure to tell my dad how happy I am to have him and how very much I love him. I apologise for the longness.
P.S. when we got home, we tried the button in the glove department again and our trunk popped open instantly...
2006-08-31 04:51:23
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answered by Missy chandrasekar 2
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maximum satisfied journey is, that i got here on yahoo solutions and met some remarkable acquaintances, 2007 rather has been a tragic and complicated twelve months, so it is the only satisfied element i'm able to think of of.
2016-10-01 03:13:58
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answered by ? 4
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i was a kid so was my brother
we were fooling around trying to climb the cupboard it was really big
it started rocking my brother jumped but i fell down
the cupboard was still rocking
then it started to fall forwards
i was under it on the floor
my brother leaped forward to get me out
he managed to do so but hurt his arm
MORAL OF THE STORY:
never risk hurting ur arm for some1 that might be a pain in the *** wen they grow up
2006-08-31 03:14:47
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answered by Anonymous
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i was dreaming i was runing down a pipe just big enough to stand in and a worm the size of the hole pipe was chasing me it touched my but with its cold nose so i turned and sluged it .i was woke up with a hard kick in the tummy from my wife i ask her why she hurt me and she said i just sluged her. seams our buts touched and i thought it was the worm .
2006-08-31 02:50:44
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answered by Anonymous
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Answering your interesting questions.... & waiting for your replies.
Bye
2006-09-01 23:43:01
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answered by Vijaypappu 2
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events are always interesting
2006-08-31 02:40:35
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answered by amit k 2
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THE EVER INTERESTING THING THAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME WAS THAT MY DREAM CAME TRUE! WHAT'S UR'S?
2006-08-31 04:19:26
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answered by Anonymous
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when i m become married.
2006-08-31 03:12:18
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answered by Anonymous
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ah many!!
2006-09-01 23:51:30
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answered by sin 2
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