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Last time I shout out to my lurker peeps!

So I tried to walk home from work yesterday instead of taking a cab. Physically, it's not that far, but it meant I had to cross the street. And that means I had to cross a six-lane road of neverending traffic. But it's not six lanes of traffic, it's roughly seven lanes of cars squeezed into six, and between the seven lanes are additional lanes of motorcycles, bicycles, and every imaginable form of smoke-belching transport. After waiting 10 minutes, I finally gave up and hailed a cab.

But that wasn't the end of it, because I managed to hail a cab driven by the only cabbie in Jakarta who's cowed by traffic. He was afraid to do a merge into this neverending metal river, so we wound up going far out of the way and doubling back.