‘Uppitiness is Not Well Tolerated Among Egyptians’

Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 10.08.08 | 5:39 PM ET

“Call me paranoid,” writes Gigi Douban in The Morning News, “but I think the grocery store clerk was sending a message loud and clear, horse-head-in-the-bed-style.” The alleged uppity crime? Sprinkling a little English with Arabic when ordering groceries in Cairo.