Dec 01 2009
car cough phone me
Egyptian road traffic (car, people, horses, cows, goats, carts) work out what to do based on local circumstances rather than any obvious rules. A free market for its users, a self-regulating system.
Pedestrians. Cairo traffic and roads were a persistent source of fascination. Pedestrians loiter in groups chatting along the roadside, waiting for minibuses and taxes. The spill out onto dual carriageways, they weave between the traffic as the cross roads.
Passengers. Health and safety culture here in Egypt is great fun for people who enjoy not having to follow over-documented common sense for those without it. The odd free-standing cow in the back of a truck was a common site
Prangs. I was only involved in one car accident during my stay. Judging by the dents and general ‘finnish’ of the cars ‘minor’ accidents are fairly common and not worthy of repair. After our accident the drivers stopped, got out, and argued passionately with arms waving for about 2 minutes then drove away, calm.
Peeps. the car horn mainly says ‘don’t move any closer that’s where I am (going)‘. One of my taxi drivers found this particularly useful when he decided to drive the wrong way down what looked like a one way street. The sound of car horns is a constant background noise to the city.
Sometimes the sound morphs to music before sliding back to
cacophony
2 inspirational musings on car cough phone me
Good movie!
The two people talking in the movie are the taxi driver and his dad. The driver just picked-up his dad at the roadside and gave him a lift too. Nice family atmosphere…
The whole holiday was a good movie…I need to get more plucky with my camera…