I went there to get a notary public verification for signing my USMLE-ECFMG identification form 186. The request is this simple: I need to sign an exam application paper that documents my identity in front of a witness who will then verify my presence and identity by counter-signing and sealing the application form. After waiting in a haphazard queue on the right side of the entrance, and getting cut by rude customers, whom the guy behind the counter entertained, I was told that they don't sign on any foreign documents without an Arabic translation . That seemed like a reasonable stipulation. So I get the form translated for BHD 16.500 at Shamil (exhibition avenue). Once more, post-queue trauma, I get a number 77. The queue was at 36. The wait began. I thought reasonably this might take an hour. Two and a half hours later, I was signaled to a registration counter, and then asked to pay BHD 3 at another cashier-counter. And then asked to wait again. 10 minute...