More quirks about living in Doha...

• You flick the light switch DOWN to turn it ON (...usually)
• It’s normal to see a car in a parking lot with its lights on and engine running with no sign of the owner anywhere. After seeing this a few times I finally realized that the person has gone into the grocery store or mall to do their shopping and wants to come out to a cool car when they’re finished. Gas is cheap. And the consequences of stealing someone’s property would be stiff. So why not!? I mean, global warming is just something Al Gore made up to sell some DVDs, right??
• When talking on cell phones, it is only the person making the call who is charged for the minutes talked. So people “miss call” each other (they call and hang up before the other person answers) which means that THAT person will have to call them back and incur the costs.
• Multi-level malls have escalator ramps – imagine a moving sidewalk and an escalator got married and had a baby – so you can take your cart (aka trolley) from floor to floor.
• It’s common not to get napkins with your meal at a restaurant. Instead, there is a box of Kleenex (pardon me: facial tissue) on the table. Yeah, it’s just as much fun as it sounds.