So Mum and MJ were visiting in Qatar. And we decided to go to the souq on the evening of Monday the 1st of January 2007.
Souq Waqef has lots of shops, old style shops. And amongst these are the shops that sell spices such as the one in the picture below with Mommy and MJ.
And while mom and the shopkeeper chat about all the things in this shop, MJ and Niam get bored. So MJ gets the SMINT out of his pocket and offers Niam one, and takes one himself. Mom and the shopkeeper are discussing the price of things. Niam and MJ are bored.
Until.... until the SMINT pops out from MJ's mouth and drops just in the middle of the big bag of thyme near him. And down down down went the SMINT, and down down down went MJ's eyes behind it trying to follow where will it end. But the SMINT went too fast for his eyes it seems and disappeared in the big bag.
This was going on without anybody noticing of course. The only thing I saw was this:
MJ digging his face in the thyme bag.
"MJ, what the hell are you doing in this bag?"
He was too busy to talk. Laughing so hard. But said enough to make me understand that his SMINT went inside the bag. No kidding! I threw a hopeless look inside the bag and knew it is impossible now to find this SMINT. We had to tell mommy. ___________________________________________________
* The SMINT story ended safely. We told mom, who told the shopkeeper, who forgave us for -maybe- he did not understand what was going on altogether. Just saw one big crazy kid and one small crazy kid laughing at a big thyme bag.
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