So yeah they took away the driver's driving license, my cousin tries to talk to the military along the driver and nothing, my cousin goes to talk with the commander and nothing, my sister starts crying out of nervousness, I'm playing some phone games on my cell phone hoping everything goes well, etc.
After a bunch of yap and nothing happening, we're just waiting to see if something happens. Out of curiosity i start googling stuff like 'road between luxor and urghada', 'military checkpoint scam near luxor', etc and I read some stuff that apparently on the road there's pirates who prey on tourists, tales of drivers asking tourists to hide in the car's trunk to get thru the checkpoint cuz the checkpoint only applies if you're egyptian and carrying tourists, counts of driving on the road between luxor and urghada with the lights off cuz that way the pirates can't see you, etc.
So now with this info I'm like "shit maybe the military dudes have a point better tell my cousin but not my sister cuz she'll only start crying more" and I tell him and we're like 'oh well….' and after no resolution with the military (they also refused to let us at least get to luxor cuz it was like 1 hour away so we could stay there, they said instead to return to aswan even tho it was like 6 hours away) they at least allowed us to stay there on the checkpoint until the next day.
Also my country had tried calling the embassy assuming it was extortion due to the 200 euros part and they didn't pick up.
And as we are waiting on the car since there's nothing we can do apparently, at around 10pm I go like "wait a minute…why don't you try to call the consulate instead? Maybe they do pick up"
My cousin agrees and tries calling and they do pick up but his phone's microphone is busted so he ends the call and asks the driver for his phone and he gives it to him and the consulate picks up again and he explains everything and when he says the 200 euro part the lady on the other end says 'wait that's illegal, let me talk to them' (maybe it was was actually legal and it was all a misunderstanding but maybe my cousin said it in a way she understood it as extortion)
So yeah my cousin and the driver and the lady on the phone go talk with the military, they return by 23:00 and the resolution was that they would allow us to go but to wait until 00:00 to process the situation and so on
On the meanwhile a guard comes to apologize and says 'I really did want to let y
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