something funny

This is brief inshallah, because its half twelve at night and i'm exhausted - or I should be anyway. We just went to Riyadh Gallery, a monstrously huge shopping mall by any comparison, at around 9 O'clock to collect ummi. We got there and met ummi, who said she just wanted to check one more shop, and should be done in a few minutes inshallah. Abi, predicting with the knowledge of experience that ummi was likely going to take a little longer than a few minutes, settled comfortably into costa coffee, while i went shopping alone.

There was however one small problem; ummi's mobile didn't have charge. I therefore told ummi to meet abi at costa when done, and if abi isn't there then check in the foodcourt upstairs. Having discharged my duty of arranging the meeting place, we went our seperate ways.

Around half an hour later, I met abi at costa. Where's Ummi and the girls ? 'no idea'. But I thought ummi said she was just about to finish, well maybe she hasn't.

I thought i'd go look for them myself in the foodcourt. All the way to the third floor, then past so many crowded resturaunts and fast foods, and even more crowded sitting areas, and generally looking in such an enourmous and crowded foodcourt that the very idea now seems unjustifiably ambitious. half an hour later, met again with abi at costa ( who has been waiting patiently ), no they aren't there. Oh I know, I thought i'd go look at the shop i'd last seen them at, might still be there.

Ummi and the girls, meanwhile, had gone to costa almost an hour earlier, checked quickly and not seeing abi - due to the most astonishingly incompetent search that I believe can possibly be executed by a small toad on two legs - went upstairs to the foodcourt. They looked and looked, they split in two parties and combed the court up and down looking for abi - who was still waiting at costa - but obviously didn't find him, so they sat down to eat. ( they told me all this later ).

Back to me, I didn't find ummi at the shop, nor anywhere else, so decided to check the foodcourt again to make sure. Went back up, checked thouroughly, no-one. By now abi was really fed-up, and decided that maybe we should check the car park. haha, of course, abi didn't find them.

I was waiting at costa as abi was searching, just in case they came back. maybe twenty minutes later, I heard a joyful ISAAAA. and there they were. Alhamdulillah, I was so happy I started laughing, and told ummi that the situation was impossibly hilarious.haha. Abi came back some time later, and was decidedly not amused.haha, its funny anyway, and i'm sure everyone will laugh later on inshallah. anyway its late and I need to sleep.