Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Traffic in the 'pines
12:00 AM

Ah, man, this is crazy! I thought driving in Dallas is scary. Driving in the Philippines one-thousand times crazier. There are lines painted on the road, right? We call them lanes. Well, to Filipinos, these are simple just lines painted on the road. No one stays in them, seriously, and if they did, they'd have a hard time 'cause the lames seem too narrow, and there seem to be too many lanes on one street for it to work anyway. But yeah, you'll find people just driving on top of the line, like they were Pac-Man trying to eat the dots or something (haha, simile). But yeah, the cars are friggin' everywhere. I couldn't really tell what was going on.

Also, no one waits for anyone. No stop signs or anything like that from what I saw. The same goes for pedestrians. There are crosswalks on the road, but again, they're only lines on the road. People just walk all over the place. They don't wait for cars to stop or slow down. They don't wait to see if it's clear, they just walk. The same with the cars. The cars don't slow down or stop for the pedestrians, they just keep going. It's friggin' crazy.

I'm a bit surprised I didn't see any accidents. I guess the reason for that is 'cause, though everyone drives crazy, they don't drive fast. Yeah, weird, huh? I'd hate to drive in this place.
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