Part 13

                                                                 BlackBerry

                     WhiteBerry

                     WhatBerry

                                                             

After lunch I sit with Dr Suha in the lobby of the main building on two extremely comfortable black leather chairs and talk with each other. Left of us is a security guard sitting behind his desk. Apart from us, there’s no one to disturb the peacefulness. From our seats we can see outside through the glass entrance. From the side where the security guard is seated, an electronic beep is to be heard. A noise like the one of a video- or a mobile phone game. The security guard is probably playing a game on his phone. At some point the noise stops and the security guard stands up and comes to us with his mobile phone.

In his very poor English he tries to ask for a BlackBerry charger. He holds his white mobile is his hand and asks more in Arabic than in English if anyone of us has a BlackBerry charger. Dr Suha and I look and smile at each other briefly and then says Dr Suha to him: “You mean for your WhiteBerry!”

“Ha?” asks the security guard.

“Look” I say, taking my black BlackBerry out of my pocket. “This is a ‘BlackBerry’, what you have is a ‘WhiteBerry’.”

“WhatBerry?” asks the security guard irritated and we roll around with laughter.

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