Robert and I nearly died today. I'm still seething over the near miss. It's common here but this time it was THAT close. We see a lot on our morning commute on the roads here, from camels, goats and sheep to silver rolls royces and red ferraris. And sometimes we see our lives pass before us. It was heavy traffic and we had just come off one of our 5 roundabouts... cars stretching before us and beside us. This guy squeezes in between the lanes, cuts off my front bumper, and to make his point he slows down in front of me. I lay on my horn, clinch my teeth, and brake .sure that someone will slam into us. The crazy guy weaves in and out and races on down the road. Only to be one car in front of us at the next roundabout.
Recently my friend Alisa and I educated a new friend on the ins and outs of surviving the driving here. You scream, you cringe, you get mad..then you find a friend and laugh. After a couple of years you learn which flashing head lights you can ignore(toyota trucks and vans) and which you can't(white land cruisers and silver rolls'). Not sure where I'd put gray suburbans in that list but I almost used rude hand gestures (which can get you arrested around here...)
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You just never know. Today, Robert and I are just happy to be alive after our morning drive...
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| Outside the police station in our neighborhood. To deter bad driving? maybe. Successful? huh.. |
