The decline of a noble profession..

A cab driver was going on about how Uber and Careem were ruining the country and that the recent increase in their prices was a reflection of how the government was taking action . So i made the huge mistake of asking him : "How have Uber and Careem impacted your business?" He responded as follows:

"Look Miss, I will tell you. See the Taxi profession in Egypt is an old one, I myself inherited it from my father who got it from his father before him. We're professionals see? Not, and excuse me for using this term, donkey cart drivers. But, but, but this is not the case for everyone.

Since 1983, our profession has gone down the drain. See, in 1983, every unemployed idiot would buy a cab and call himself a Taxi driver . You'd be sitting in a café and see a friend and tell him "hey, i have no work, i'm broke" and he'd tell you "take my car and drive it about". Now everything got worse after the Revolution. Thugs were breaking out of jail, running around in the streets and jumping into Taxis. Now !! With all those thugs driving around nice girls like you felt less safe. Obama and America saw this and decided that it was a perfect opportunity to launch the destruction of our civilization with Uber and Careem. They established these bad companies here, knowing that they would fight in the street with good hard working Taxi drivers. Now Obama is looking at us through the GPS and, as he sees the world go up in flames, he is happy."