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Random memory:
It was about 2015 or 2016? It was peak-ZIRP, I was taking Arabic lessons at the time, and I took a ton of cheap VC subsidized Uber rides everywhere in SF. And I remember almost pretty much every Uber ride, I would quickly become friends with the driver once they realized I could speak (in my not very good Levantine Arabic) because many drivers spoke some form of Arabic for whatever reason, at the time, it turned out.
One guy offered to take me out in Tashkent (not even arab) about how he got a visa by translating to the US army presence in Afghanistan, another to show me around in Oman, Kurds, Iraqis, Saudis, and heard so many life stories of people of how they got to the US, what they miss the most about Home, what they wanted to eat the most
It turned uber rides into an oddly magical time, unexpectedly 6 replies
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