Traffic in Cairo is worse than most places I’ve visited. I’d rank
it, along with Milan and Amman as one of the worst cities for driving. Cars
cutting each other off, horns blaring, traffic at a standstill… Not a lot of
fun. Nor is it all that great for pedestrians.
Venturing out into the city, I soon realized that to get
anywhere, it was necessary to just walk through the traffic. A local told me
that to cross a street in Cairo: “You must close your eyes and open your heart.”
Too true. Close your eyes to the oncoming traffic and walk,
but prepare your heart to die—at least that was the gist I took from his
advice. Not bad advice either—whether crossing the street or living life.
Often as not, life’s dangers prove to be imaginary, or at
least more imaginary than the cars of Cairo. Those horns though… I wanted to
hang the man who invented the car horn… The heat must have been getting to me…
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