Clarification of "hesitancy" to Luigi and Gambling

Submitted by Isis (Australia), Jun 25, 2009 at 03:12

Luigi - you wrote "--I don't think he knows what he wants yet. I think he's mulling things over at best, at worst, he's not interested. But I do think the age difference and perhaps the cultural differences are why he is hesitating."

This Egyptian waiter was hesitating because he was under threat from his manager not to relate on a personal level to the guests or he would lose his job. As for appearing nervous in the street it is because he was with a foreign woman and he had no validating papers to be with a foreign woman.

As for being nervous when Gambling put her arm around him for a photo, Gambling was was actually breaking the law which is no public displays of affection between Egytptian males & females or an Egyptian man and a female foreigner. This man could have been sacked from his job if caught by his superiors or if caught by the Tourism police, even jailed over this small incident. His hesitancy in reality has nothing to do with the man not knowing what he wants - subsequents emails, text messages and phone calls from him to Gambling are proof that he does know what he wants.

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