Freitag, 22. Oktober 2010

Drving skills (#) 0

Driving in Kuwait is like driving around Arc de Triomphe in Paris, but constantly!!! (if you have never had that experience, here a basic rule...there are no rules in that roundabout..ah wait, there is one: the incoming cars have right of way, which is quite not smart)

back to Kuwait. rules basically don't exist, maybe only one:

survival of the strongest and stupidest (fittest..nawwh, not really).
  • The turn light is turned on only when not needed, but when needed most, it is non existant. A good example are the highway ramps. So when you are on a one lane ramp with concrete walls on both sides and the ramp makes a constant right turn, people here think they have to use their turning light to the right. However, if you are passing by a car, left or right doesn't matter here, on a very busy highway with 120 km/h, the light is not used, ever. 


  • Since there are no manual cars, driving is like F1 and Go-kart together..or at least for some here. I mean if you have a ferrari, you need to use it's acceleration once in a while, regardless of the faith of the person in the other cars. 
  • ah yeah, driving on a motorbike with 150 km/h without a helmet, and doing slalom, is not really smart, but very ;) masculin.   (the same applies to those who drive a lamborghini with about 200 through the traffic jam)


  • also very masculin might be honking and ligthing at the one up front whilst in the middle of a traffic jam, where every lane is occupied. but maybe his/her car can find the gap ;)
  • another driving skill here is to go on the highway, without checking out if somebody is coming in the outer lane. why bother about that, right?
  • or passing you, and then slowing down (probably because you have received a phone call)
    (since the government does not need extra income, the don't really have cops giving out fines, otherwise, like in Switzerland, the would make millions just with driving/phoning and speeding fines)

3 Kommentare:

  1. It used to be like that in Moscow in the 90-es. Except for the cops! Ours elaborated various schemes of hiding in the bush to catch the lawbreakers and take the bribes!

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  2. hol vagy? nem ersz ra, mi? :)

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  3. "like driving around Arc de Triomphe in Paris" - haha, sounds familiar to me :) good old times in paris...

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