To Gambling - STOP!

Submitted by Isis (Australia), Jun 23, 2009 at 21:00

Hi Gambling! Your predicament is not a new scenario as this is played out everyday in Egypt. Please consider the following -

First - he won't be able to get a visa to your country as he only works in a hotel and is not in senior management. He is not educated and does not have $10,000 LE in the bank to support the trip. He will not have any assets and he will not have an accountable reason to obtain any sort of visa to another couuntry.

Second - you may have been given bad service by the other waiting staff because senior management in the hotel may have seen what was going on between you and this man and put a stop to it or ALL the staff would have lost their jobs..

Third - you have already offered him money in the form of an air ticket so you have unwittingly opened the door.

Fourth - you have opened communication on his level and he will pester you now.

Take a step back and consider all your options before you publicly declare that you are in love with man. Have you considered the fact that he will not be able to get a visa to your country (Britain??), he is Muslim, he is a lowly paid waiter being paid around 200LE a month and therefore only surviving on tips, that you will go broke flying back and forth to Egypt to see this man and shower him with all matter of designer clothes, watches and electronic gadgets.

Please read the stories of "becreative" and "bewildered" on this blog before you go any further.

Sorry to sound so harsh but reality needs to kick on sometime.

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