Stolen Car! Plate Number: "Jan. 25th"...

So the revolution aftermath keeps on being witnessed in Egyptian streets everyday.

Egyptian people, being creative by nature, like to seize every opportunity to create a 'commercial' occasion out of it. Prior to the revolution, this was most apparent when you'd simply 'pause' with your car for a split second, and be suddenly bombarded with people attempting to sell you things through your car window. Products aren't just randomly picked, no, no, no - but are rather specifically tailored to every occasion. In Ramadan, they'd sell you "fawanees", before football matches, Egyptian flags, in Valentine's, red hearts...and the list goes on and on.

The revolution of course came along with its own waves of creativity. From Egyptian flags, to flag colored head bandits, to small car danglers saying "Egyptian and Proud", you name it - all are being sold, and quite heavily too. Honestly, although I've always been against such products, I haven't been against them this time, because I believe they do help boost people's feelings of loyalty (and mine too) everytime you see more of Egypt's flags where ever you go.

Now that's all ok, nothing wrong with that at all...

I was fine with all this until I saw a recent line of creativity: the all new "Jan. 25th Car Plate Stickers!". Quite creative, yes, but result is that you can now find them stuck on almost everyone's car back! Not only are they repetitive and lost their charm (now being everywhere) but are now confusing to anyone who is trying to quickly trace or take note of car number. We keep on calling for increased security control everyday, yet this isn't helping at all. If you catch an escaping car that either grabbed your bag and ran, or harmed you in whichever way, you may very well pause and be confused for a second as to which car number you should take note of - with both original car numbers and "Jan. 25th" now being stuck almost next to each other on all cars. Even worse, some people have decided to stick such fake plates onto their original plates! Here's an example of a picture taken by a friend of mine for a cab sticking such car plate.



There's nothing wrong with following recent trends and fashions. It only becomes wrong when we don't think what sort of consequence will such trend have on us personally first and then on the rest of the people around us. So the next time you're offered with a new line of creativity, just stop and think, just once, before you're drifted - like everyone else - into buying them.