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Originally Posted by Jamroll
This is all conjecture because we don't know what was said between the tailor and the woman, or the tailor and the other man, but if a trader is rude to you, or makes you unhappy, I wouldn't immediately think of being physically violent with him. There's no need for it. Plus a more effective recourse is to give the guy a short verbal dressing-down, and then storm out (to make yourself feel better), and most importantly make sure your friends, family and as many other people as you are able to tell, know about it, so the business suffers directly.
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Ideally, that's the best thing to do. It happened to me once. I just called the cops and allowed them to do the yelling on my behalf.
There was an outrageous article that came out in the Arabic paper yesterday. It seems UAE nationals and Westerners are almost
always charged twice or thrice more because some people (and I don't need to specify) think that "they have money."
From the article, I can see that this incident took place in Ras al-Khaimah. If this had happened in Dubai, I would understand and accept that
abayas cost 200 Dirhams or more. But in Ras al-Khaimah? That's a joke.
The fact that the Jordanian lady was going to purchase an
abaya means she actually wears
abayas, and the tailor must have mistook her for a local, because many people can't tell the difference between a national and a non-national Arab. He probably thought that since she's a local, he could easily charge her 200 Dirhams.