Cairo to NY JFK. Flight Attendant (FA) had to do a PA 3x due to health concern/issues on the flight. FA PA'ed 1st time; Are there any doctors on this flight? 2nd time; could the doctor that previously helped return to the front of the plane? 3rd time; would Dr. Mohamed Ahmed join me at the front of the plane. Reason this was hilarious and infuriating? Everytime "Doctor" was mentioned on the call every elderly man called "doctor" in his daily life would stand up. [Egyptian (perhaps Cairo exclusive? I lived there for 5 years and still found it an undefinable) thing for respected male elders designating class without regard to PhD versus medical degree and often for those with B.A.s or M.A.s]. The FA kept calling for doctors too and was so confused when the same NoT a Doctor would stand to help. She eventually got the actual medical doctor's seat number so she could come visit him as needed. (Also, that flight was a freaking disaster. It was in 2013 and during the civil unrest.)

2nd funniest as in strangest this I've ever seen was 2 years earlier during the attempted revolution and Arab Spring. Cairo International Airport. Everyone is trying to leave. It's a cashed based society so tons of business people, UN people, Embassy people were the 1st called to evac and have a TON of cash on them but the flights were very disorganized that they'd fly without their luggage with families split up and such. I saw a woman stashing 10k of Euros into each of her 3 kid's backpacks out in the open because the security officer noticed she had an abundance of cash and a person can only bring less than 10k through. A friend was paid 5k just to carry a cat through on a flight. The German Ambassador had 2 cats but couldn't get them on his flight. So, she got paid to bring one through. Good times.