Moey
Yeah, I like that about them.

Aizat
I believe they pick hard-hearted on purpose, anyway what they do is to protect us and we should respect that and THEY have to respect our understanding by being bit nicer.

Malage6
Maybe you look like Sajida ? :p J/k.
I have heard many times that women would appreciate the moment she could humiliate another women, I guess you should have asked to be scanned by a man :p

wala amazing wala ishi

i had a fight with the girl at the door,she said walk in and i did then she followed me,wain wain haty il shanta..and i said u said walk in ..zinkha..boozha shebrain.. 2oltelha fathsi yakhti

but i dont mind this its neccessary i feel safer.

i wanted to write zaman 3an carrfour and city mall but differant things..maybe i will

in Mecca Mall, once they made me do that and since then i stopped vising Baghdad, gasdi mecca mall.

Part of the point was that there is NO intelligence service car, I should have made that clearer.

He was trying to scare me, largely because he knows it works on most people, but also because he knows he can do nothing.

And I didn’t want to write a very long comment, but what I told the first 2 security guys was exactly that I understand their concern and why they are asking, and it makes me feel safe in their mall that they are checking that. But it still does not give them the right to issue new laws. (It takes parliament to do that).

And btw, I’ve seen those MIB type SECURITY people in Mekka Mall. And I must agree, it doesn’t make me feel safe to see them, it makes me feel threatened.

Hani Obaid
I totally agree but I still think the behaviour of Mecca Mall security is because of the people class they have to deal with and by class I include age and education.

Sari Al-Hiari
Dude, this is an incomplete story, you got to tell us what happened when the Intelligence Service car arrive.

anyway, I do agree that there should be a sign telling what’s not allowed; however, (you will hate me now) for a security guy who would never understand why someone would be photographing his car in that parking, he will start (yedrob akhmas be asdas) thinking you are doing that on purpose for some illegal reason.

Sari, you said three of them approached you one by one, which is a good sign, in Mecca Mall you will end up fighting with the first one, no second or this option

and even the last one wasn’t that impolite dude, he was speaking in a threatening way but that’s one of things that he’s allowed to do in some cases, finally What happened when the IS car arrive ?

This happened during my vacation last summer in Amman, I had my family and my camera and was taking photos around the mall.

I went to the parking lot to smoke and took a few shots of my car parked there (OLD Toyota Tercel).

Two security guys approach and asked me questions on why I was taking photos, to which I replied that it is my car and I want to take photos of it. Of course, I know the law in Jordan on photography, so I knew that there is nothing wrong with what I am doing.

They explained that I am not allowed to do that, to which I said “I don’t see any signs saying that, and you have no right to lay down rules verbally”, and I can clearly see that this is not the response they are used to.

Any case, I finished my cigi and went back into the mall, thinking that was it.

To my surprise I found a better dressed more official looking security guy with a walky-talky, standing at the door to the parking lot. He said to me “لو سمحت، ممنوع التصوير هون”,
Me: وين مكتوب هالحكي
Him (in threatening voice) : وين مكتوب؟!! طيب خليك واقف هون.
Mind you I have my family with me at the time, so I just smiled and said لأ, And continued to walk to my car, and I can see this guy following me to my car.
We hopped in, I started the car, and he was standing in front of the car a bit to the left and I could hear him talking on the walky-talky saying : “ابعتولي سيارة المخابرات”.
Now that pissed me off as much as it made me laugh.

I thought that may be when he sees my indifference, he will tell the guys on the walky-talky to send in Abu Rijil Maslokha and may later on the boogey man.

Needless to say, I drove home with a bitter experience and a determination to not visit City Mall ever again.

I tried to understand why this happened, and the best I can come up with is that they think of us as sheep that they control, as opposed to free people who they should be protecting.

Mecca mall seem to put little regard to their customer’s satisfaction, and the goons they have at the enterance are there less for security than to enforce the managements idea of racism. (i.e. we decide who’s allowed to shop in here).