Crossing the Road

All the legends are true : you see 4 lanes of one way traffic which doesn't obey speed limits, stop at a red traffic light, let alone a pedestrian crossing, and you wonder how the hell you will cross the road in Tehran. Solution: you look very closely at the shifting mass of steel and glass, then walk into the smallest gap in the traffic. Inshallah, the car you've walked right in front of has functioning brakes. You continue to do this across 4 lanes... and then you suddenly hear a loud screech of brakes. Reason: motorbike going the wrong way up a one way street has missed you by 10 cm. You should have looked left then right.