the lebanese

last night a man was wearing a tight t-shirt with none other than the lebanese flag plastered on it in big red white and green.

-you lebanese? (of course he's gonna be lebanese why the hell are you even asking)

nods

-aaand, kifak?

blank

-bte7keh 3arabeh?

blank blank, so i throw in a

-whassup?

he responds in slurred english
-never been there. hey are you guys from the christian or the muslim side? tell me tell me!

we laugh

he frowns, steps back and forth, makes a fist with his hand.

this man wants a fight, or as we put it, "shou, baddo mashkal?"

we smile

this nowhere man with the lebanese shirt who doesn't know a drop of arabic and has never stepped foot in lebanon is a specimen of true lebanese national heritage.

yup. it's true. genes make the world go round.