No problem

Here in the ME if you ask a question that they're not sure of the answer to, they will say "no problem." For example, if you wonder if the hair dryer you're buying has a plug that will actually fit into an outlet here, they will say "no problem." Then once you get the hairdryer home and take it out of all the wrapping you realize it has three prongs instead of the two you needed. It is "no problem" for them but I'm left scrambling again for an adaptor--rearranging other electrical items that are only used sometimes and taking the adaptor from that so I can use the hairdryer until I get back to the store and buy yet another adaptor.

On a larger scale, a moving company representative came to our house yesterday to give us an estimate of what it will cost to move us to Cairo. In the States when the moving companies came they all had checklists and fancy calculators or at least apps on their PDAs so they could come pretty close on how much space our stuff would take. The guy who showed up yesterday was dressed very professionally and even carried a notebook. However, I started to worry as I was taking him through the house and even though he seemed to be listening intently as I told him what was staying and what was going, (our house is considered a "furnished" house so much of it belongs to the home owner) he wasn't taking any notes or putting numbers into a fancy calculator or anything. We got through the house and he went into deep thought. He then announced a 20' container should take care of it and we would need about 50 boxes. I thought he must be very experienced at this kind of thing and was adding things up in his head as we went along. That is, until he ended his thought process by saying "no problem."

Aaaahhhh. I love moving. No stress at all.