As usual on almost all Friday mornings, except for a few exceptions, I walked into the nearest Kudu fast food outlet to fetch a takeaway breakfast for my family. When I entered the restaurant, I received thunderous applause from a group of young Saudis, to be exact eight of them, in their Bermuda shorts and T-shirts. I wondered whether I was the lucky winner of something! Then these youngsters insisted that they would pay my bill. I said that this was not proper at all and that I being a fatherly figure should pay for all of them. However, we compromised with each paying his own bill with no embarrassment to anyone. Then they started firing questions at me, one after the other, about my name, country, age and job, etc. The last of all was how long I have been in this country, to which I responded by saying that I arrived here very much before any of them were born! I received another round of thunderous applause with a hug and kiss from every one of them. Then all eight of them posed for photographs with me one after the other. I asked whether they were going to publish the photos in the newspaper to which they replied that they would put them on Facebook. These youngsters really touched my heart and I give my sincere gratitude to their parents for the way they have brought up these lovely children. The away-from-home behavior of a child always reflects the environment that he was exposed to at home.
Before I sat down to write this to share with readers, I related the story to my family at the breakfast table. They enjoyed the breakfast but they enjoyed this extraordinary story of the human feeling of these youths for another human being much better. However, I am very sad that such good news very rarely or almost never attracts the media as much as bad news like someone being attacked or robbed. May God bless these eight young men with good health and a long life and may they become good fathers, in the future, to produce more children of the same character.
