Thread: Will never complain about traffic again

The drivers of Rome steer with their knees. One hand is permanently out the window giving the cornuto to all and sundry and the other is permanently on the horn.

My opinion is that the French have no road rules, just a free for all. The Vietnamese obviously learned from their colonial masters and later reformed the French system into total chaos.

I have friends, a married couple, currently working in a rural area of Saudi Arabia on a three year contract. She is not permitted to drive, and he refuses because of the local drivers and their death wish. Their employer provides a car and driver when they want to go anywhere. She says she sits in the back always, belts up tight, and closes her eyes.

It is quite normal practice to race the train to the level crossing on the highway into town. Two way traffic on wrong sides in one way streets, bikes, donkeys, camels, etc, up the middle, and two way at that, or on the footpath. Apparently parking is wherever you find space to leave the vehicle.

He puts the local driver's behaviour down to the Islamic belief of "insh'allah" or "if God wills it". So if you have a prang it is not your fault, but the will of Allah.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

The drivers of Rome steer with their knees. One hand is permanently out the window giving the cornuto to all and sundry and the other is permanently on the horn.

My opinion is that the French have no road rules, just a free for all. The Vietnamese obviously learned from their colonial masters and later reformed the French system into total chaos.

I have friends, a married couple, currently working in a rural area of Saudi Arabia on a three year contract. She is not permitted to drive, and he refuses because of the local drivers and their death wish. Their employer provides a car and driver when they want to go anywhere. She says she sits in the back always, belts up tight, and closes her eyes.

It is quite normal practice to race the train to the level crossing on the highway into town. Two way traffic on wrong sides in one way streets, bikes, donkeys, camels, etc, up the middle, and two way at that, or on the footpath. Apparently parking is wherever you find space to leave the vehicle.

He puts the local driver's behaviour down to the Islamic belief of "insh'allah" or "if God wills it". So if you have a prang it is not your fault, but the will of Allah.

I used to work with a fellow who asked his taxi driver, in the middle east, why one side of his car was smashed, the driver retorted "Allah had one eye closed"