DAMMAM: After being married for only one month, a newly married bride here is searching for a second wife for her husband, Al-Yaum daily reported yesterday. The woman said her husband went into early retirement months before their marriage and lounges around the house “interfering” in her life. Since he has nothing to do, the woman claims he sits at home all day and finds fault with her every move. To keep him busy and get him off her back, she decided that finding him another wife would be a good solution.
Tales from the exam hall
RIYADH: As Saudi high school students sit for their end of year exams, bizarre stories from the exam room are being reported in the local press. Muaz Khalifa, a high school sophomore, never thought that when his classmate got caught cheating, he would swallow the cheat sheet in front of the teacher to hide any evidence of his “crime,” Al-Eqtisadiah daily reported. The student, who got caught with the paper during a math exam, would have been expelled from the school had school authorities seen the paper. But without any proof, the student was let off with a stern warning. Metib Al-Rushudi, a teacher in a high school in Riyadh, told about the “mercy pleas” they receive on exam papers. “We receive many mercy pleas written by students on answer sheets. I remember one where a student pleaded for the teacher to have mercy on him when he was correcting his answer sheet. Another student wrote: ‘You may wonder why my answers are not related to the question; it is because I did not sleep all night’.”
