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Old 06-04-2020, 11:15 AM
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Cairo Taxis

The Government in Egypt has asked the city's taxi drivers to drive around Cairo sounding their car horns.

It is hoped that the familiar sounds of the city will induce a return to tranquility and normality following the recent pandemic.

Operation Toot 'n Calm 'Em will last for the rest of the week
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What a hoot!
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Perhaps the scariest ride I've ever had in an automobile was in a taxi in Cairo....
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Perhaps the scariest ride I've ever had in an automobile was in a taxi in Cairo....
My most worrisome was in Tbilisi. My team chief said it was "best experienced with your eyes closed".

Of course, the rides in Turkey were quite sporting as well.
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I too took a taxi in Cairo from the hotel to the airport back in 2000. The drivers there are nuts. But it is not 100% their fault. The roads are crap, often there are no traffic lights and those that worked were ignored. Horns blaring all the time like someone is paying attention? Not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I suppose it is all just background noise that is normal there.


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There were two things that struck me about taxi drivers (and other drivers) in Cairo, and when I lived in Kuwait, you could always tell the taxi driver was Egyptian when he did these things:

1) Drive in the center of the road, straddling lane lines, and;

2) Drive at night with the lights out.

I asked a Cairo native about the no-lights thing and he said that shining your lights at an oncoming car was considered rude. Uh, ok.... But isn't driving at night with your lights out kinda dangerous?
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Never been to Cairo but have been to Alexandria, Egypt. Taxi drivers there were the same seems like.

As an aside walking across the road right outside the port in Naples, Italy was a hoot.
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Many years back I remember travelling in Sudan.

The roads through the desert were a bit like raised berms and at night, trucks and up-country buses - festooned with what seemed like hundreds of lights - hurtled down these narrow roads at a great rate of knots.

The problem was that with all the lights there was massive electrical overload - so they tended to drive with the lights off - only periodically putting them on to gauge where they were going. There was a 4 to 6-foot drop on either side of the road.

The effect at night as you drove down the road with pitch-black darkness ahead past your headlights, was that periodically there was a huge blinding flash as some truck/bus switched on all their lights for a few seconds.

Night vision destroyed, the vehicles disappeared. Another flash, darkness again, and then a sudden whooooosh as something thundered past...

It was exciting, to say the least.

In the daytime you could admire the remains of the wreckage strewn in places alongside the road.
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Interesting how the joke became a recounting of travel experiences
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Rick, I thought your joke was great, but then, I have a very hysterical historical appreciation flaw.

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