As I always believe, the minibus is one of the good sources of the stories because its a place where I meet different kind of people like employees, unemployed or even soldiers. Today is not different. Just like the other days of Baghdad, the traffic jams are everywhere and I had to waste more than two hours trying to reach the office.

          While I was in Alawi neighborhood in downtown Baghdad; a young man got in the car. The bus stopped because of the traffic jam and we started talking about different things. We were complaining that everything became so expensive in Iraq. The man laughed and said "yes even food. Do you believe that the lunch of three people cost 1500000 Iraqi Dinars'. I was like "what ?one and a half million Iraqi Dinar for three people lunch? What did they eat? Gold?" The man asked me to forget the whole story but  I insisted to know and the man said "well, if you insist. I'm an accountant in the ministry of oil. An employee in the ministry came to me with a receipt of one and a half million Iraqi Dinars ($1341) for lunch for three people. I was shocked and I told him what? you want me to gave you 1500000 Iraqi Dinars? No I will not." The employee said "but this is your job". I said "I will never give you this amount of money. You can solve this problem with the manager."

          After the man finished talking, I was speechless. I felt so happy that this young man refused to participated in this stealing but how many honest employees we have? I wished that have a real government that can send to jail such a corrupted employee for the rest of his life. I know that all the Iraqi governmental governmental departments are infected with corruption and I know about the useless rebuilding projects but never thought that we have such thieves in Iraq.