Put down the casserole and step away from the minivan!

Date: About 7 years ago, making Bobbie about 6 years old. She could have been younger, I’m not sure.


Location: Saudi Arabia, old Dammam highway (I think?)


Purpose of trip: Dad was taking Taylor, some of his friends, Kamiah and Bobbie sand sledding/boarding. They were all piled in the suburban.
Situation: They are driving on the highway, and there is a security checkpoint (the military/police set up random checkpoints all over the roads. They are mostly to check for Iqamas – making sure that people haven’t come for Hajj and then stayed in Saudi to work) ahead.


Dad slows down, and the military man motions for Dad to roll down his window. He proceeds to ask for all of Dad’s documentation, Iqama, Istemara.


As he and his comrades are going over the documents, Bob rolls down the window in the Suburban – she’s in the back, but on the same side as the military checkpoint- and she yells,

“PUT DOWN THE CASSEROLE AND STEP AWAY FROM THE MINIVAN!!”


**Bob is a pretty shy kid. Really shy, actually. So why she decided to do this, which is way out of her personality, is beyond explanation.


**Also – why she decided this would be a good thing to yell at the Saudi military is also unexplainable.


** It is also somewhat sentimental to note that Dad brought Kamiah for 2 purposes:

#1 she LOVED playing in the sand dunes, and

#2 – the Saudi’s HATE dogs. A lot. He thought if he put Kamiah in the car next to him, the military would see her and freak out and just let him through without scrutinizing his documents.

**If you don’t know this casserole reference, it's from a Mormon movie, The Singles Ward.