TAIF, 11 August 2006 — The family thought the old man was joking. But he wasn’t. According to a report in the Al-Madinah daily yesterday, an 80-year-old family patriarch said he was going to marry a young woman. The family, thinking he was joking, laughed it off. They stopped laughing when the old man distributed wedding invitations a few days later announcing his planned nuptials to a 20-year-old bride.
A Woman’s Heart Costs More Than Ten Riyals
MAKKAH, 11 August 2006 — The man tried to fool his bride with a little something he picked up from the All-For-10-Riyals store, the Saudi equivalent of the dollar stores in the US, the Okaz daily reported yesterday. For the price of two shawarma sandwiches, the man bought his lady a piece of jewelry made out of fake gold — for the couple’s wedding! Imagine his surprise when the woman later discovered the ruse and refused to live with a man whose trust is as thin as the flaking layer of gold-colored nickel plating on a tacky, All-For-10-Riyals piece of costume jewelry.
Ladies Tell Abuser: Oh No You Don’t!
MAKKAH, 11 August 2006 — A man who slapped his wife around in a Makkah shopping center drew the ire of a large number of Saudi women shoppers, the Al-Riyadh daily reported yesterday. As he was shouting and beating his wife, he didn’t notice the growing mob of black that was surrounding him. He turned to see several abaya-covered women glaring at him through the eye-slots in their niqabs. The women threatened to beat the heck out of the man. Some held up items they had bought that could be used as weapons. They ordered the man to apologize to his lady and promise not to be abusive any more. The man made his pledge and the couple quickly exited the shopping center before the women could change their minds and decide that the man deserved a little of his own medicine.
