IDs and Licenses

If you’re passing by a security checkpoint,
And you happen to have a girl in the car with you,
You’ll automatically get asked for your IDs and about your relationship to the girl,
No matter what she looks like or is wearing.
Even if she wears the niqab.

One time, I was travelling by car to Sharm el-Sheikh with my family.
I was driving.
My sister, female cousin, and male cousin were in the car with me.
Our parents were in the car ahead of ours.
We were stopped at a checkpoint:
“IDs and I need to see a license.”
“Who’s she?”
What does he mean “Who’s she?” How could he ask something like that?

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