<div class="floatleft"><div align="center">(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/132c/qanv0vlare944wbzg.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>Jaclyn Rosendahl</strong></span><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;">Entrepreneur<br/><em>About Jaclyn</em> (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=289408.msg14241614#msg14241614)<br/> ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ </span></span></div></div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… we pay our check and head for the concierge desk …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “Hello. We’d like to hire a taxi for a few hours. The driver needs to be from here – we’d prefer a native Emirati – and speak English we can understand. We are good listeners. We would to be taken around the city and surroundings to see what the driver believes are interesting sites. We won’t be getting out unless the driver advises.”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… he summons one of the redcaps … they speak in what I assume is Arabic … the redcap hastens off and the concierge turns back to us …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “We have two drivers in the taxi queue who may fit your description. We’re inviting the one nearer the front of the queue inside to speak with you so that you may assure yourself of his English and discuss what sort of thing you wish to see.</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… and not too much later, we’re seated in a very clean taxi in conversation with the driver, Mr. Alghamdi … we tell him we’d like to see the neighborhood where he lives and where people shop for groceries … we’re careful to explain we are not asking to visit inside anyone’s home, just to see how they go about their business …</em></span></span><br/>