My balls are expanding

I thought crossing streets as a pedestrian ws crazy in China... until about 10 hours ago. Cairo is so much worse! The cars won't stop or slow down for you. You have to just start walking from where you're standing and assume that the cars will drive to avoid you even if you're in their lane. Of course you need to watch carefully for drivers who aren't paying attention just in case you have to run or jump away, or at least strike a good pose as you get runned over.

If you're smart, you can time your crossing so that if something bad happens, other people will hopefully die before you :) (cross at the same time as a group with them closer to the bumpers)

If Shanghai was Frogger, then Cairo is Frogger pumped up on testosterone.

If you are not willing to do this, you may find yourself standing on the sidewalk for an hour. Cairo has 5 million cars in a small city with small streets and a low number of signal lights, so there's always a car coming to where you want to go.

It's weird but I've never felt so comfortable being inches away from a car, truck, or bus going 30 mph before in my life.