These Indians are Crazy!

Today the traffic signal at the Kamraj Road - St. John's Road junction decided to malfunction. It would turn green and then five seconds later turn red again and gleefully watch motorists in the middle of the road be cut off by impatient drivers from the perpendicular road.

It doesn't take much for Indians to make up their own road rules. My favourite being
"Drivers may only be driving on the foothpath incase of full road being traffic-jammed or maybe road cutting work is going on."
So careening down the foothpath was the way of the day. Now tell me, in which other country could you do this and not get a ticket?

Another oft used road rule is the one that states "it is mandatory to sound horn ok when traffic signal is turning to orange colour."
In fact it's good etiquette to sound horn ok all the time. However, if you don't have a really good quality horn you can sound ok horn. No one minds really.

It is also mandatory to put the bottle to the throttle as soon as the traffic signal shows any indication of turning green.

Policemen like bananas when they're taking a break from directing traffic. This is true: I saw one of them coercing a hapless fruit vendor to give him free bananas once.

The best way to cross a traffic junction when the lights decide to malfunction is to inch one's way slowly to the other side, thus gradually and decidedly cutting off the traffic from the perpendicular. This eventually leads to a deadlock, but deadlocks are always a good time to catch up on some sleep.

It's absolute anarchy. Wheeeee for Wendetta!