Cairo Dodgeball

"If you can dodge traffic, you can dodge a ball."

Although I've been mostly working here, one of my first exposures to Cairo the city was the way to cross the street. If you've seen the movie Dodgeball than you have a pretty good idea. You essentially just walk out into the street and dodge the cars coming by. It's like a game of Frogger, except I'm fairly sure you only get one life.


It's not as hard as it sounds, though I've yet to venture it by myself. Since everyone does it, there is kind of an implicit system where the drivers don't fully try to hit you, and you try to identify which drivers you don't want to mess with. Supposedly foreigners and old people get a little bit more leeway from the drivers, which works in my favor. However I'm told that in no circumstance do you want to try to play chicken with a bus or taxi driver.