20 June 2013
Tuesday, 25 October 2011 00:00

Unrelated Relatives

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A rather blatant grammatical mistake on this announcement is yet somewhat true and worthy of notice.

An old trick in Iran when a couple are pulled over or questioned about their relationship is to tell the morality police or the Basiji that “we are cousins” or “we are family.” This is a widspeard and well known trick that sometimes works and other times doesn't. This piece of paper, placed on the front door of a business (perhaps a cafe or a motel) reads:

“Followed by the orders of the Union, we can no longer offer our services to the families who are not related.”

Can you imagine having “unrelated relatives?!”

 

 

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Parisa is a journalism graduate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is currently a MFA Creative non-Fiction writing candidate at Goucher College. She began writing about her native country, Iran, at her personal blog IranStories.com to share everything she loves about Iran and Iranians, minus all the politics (if that's possible).

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