But seriously though, I don't even know why I am mentioning this now since I didn't want to contribute to negative perception all this time, but I was speaking with an extended relative who wanted to do dhaqan celis for a troubled teen and immediately I said "TAKE HIM TO THE BAADIYE OR GOBOLADA, Xamar is not a place for dhaqan celis"
And I told them the truth, it is 1 Million X easier for him to get alcohol in Xamar than in the US. While it is not impossible in the US, it is not exactly as easy as going to the point of purchase and just procuring.
Yet in Xamar, it is as easy as do you have the money in an account. You aren't even carrying cash.
Everywhere near social scene like the beach amd Benadir area and all that, there are entire convoys of worker ant types facilitating the purchase of these half pint Ethiopian bottled gins hidden in their socks and belts and under shirts.
They are working for a little boss of the block who inevitably is always a fixer of all kinds of diverse needs---chiefly sex.
Literally out of nowhere will saunter up what is always a loud, "experienced" seeming, overly made up socialite (basically the Somali version of bar wench) half pulling a nervous, wide eyed post-teenage young lady similarly wearing tacky make up but almost always comely and pleasant to look at it. She is as beyond your grab as your little mobile money transfer phone to move the cost from one account to the other.
I have a cousin who is very good friends with one of these fixers who supplies him very good Khat apparently (I don't chew) and although wr didn't hit it off at first (he thought I was judgemental and evasive), the initial clash actually provided an opportunity for serious engagement and we became friends ironically. I won't describe anything about him to respect the trust showed me, but I literally spent countless moments going back to learn about his perspective and observing aa real life and human aspect to civil war Somalia that is never addressed nor acknowledged even but exists and is even flourishing as a means of survival.
Before I used to think alcohol and prostitution and all that was some exclusive, elitest issues concerning goverment and diaspora civil servants and all that.
The young dhaqan celis, at least in the US, he will be asked for an ID; not in Xamar or Somalia.
If a kid is being brought for dhaqan celis and the destination isn't BAADIYE in the countryside, he is better off where he is already with restrictions to vices like intoxicants
