The Way They Drive in Nigeria.
The cure for "Back seat driver syndrome" - go to a place like Nigeria, where everyone drives like a nut, and don't wear a seatbelt. Too busy praying to give any orders... but can't make orders because nobody would follow them, smiles.

Both lanes of traffic use both sides of the road, both performing a dance, weaving in and out from eachother, with a honk here and a honk there, a flash of the head lights here and a flash of the headlights there, and don't forget a fist and an insult.

There's a whole lot of honking going on. If you don't honk, you don't get anywhere. Even as I lay in bed at night, I still hear the horns. Its never quiet in the city, as long as people are trying to get somewhere.

And please don't make me think about the way one makes a left hand corner. Or how close they drive to the pedestrians walking along the streets, so many times I thought the rearview mirror would snag someones arm and do some serious damage... And if I thought the cars were crazy the motor bikes are even worse. They are like hornets. Everywhere, weaving in and out around cars, trucks.... everywhere.

I have seen motor bikes crash into people, people fall off of bikes in the midst of traffic (including a mother with a baby strapped on her back, all but landing on the baby behind her, only to get back on the bike...), and I have personally jumped out of the way of a motor bike after a wheel blew and the driver lost control...

And car accidents. They happen all the time. Little nicks and scratches here and there... is it any wonder they way they drive AND force themselves into a line of traffic... until they are only millimeters away from the next vehicle sometimes it seems. The Land Rover has sustained at least 3 nicks from other drivers in the time I have spent in Nigeria. Angry words back and forth between the other driver and the driver of the Land Rover, then both are on their way. In Canada it would be a big law suit, and a lot of Moola. Here its an arguement, and a shaking of head. I have noticed many of arguements pertaining to bad driving incidence through out Jos. Angry people seem to be on this street corner and that street corner... a way of life, when it comes to driving.

Laura, maybe you should drive, my Nigerian friends say from time to time. Honestly if given a chance to drive here, I'd have to respectfully decline. One good thing, I have found a new found faith being in a vehicle... I have had no choice but to have faith.