Reality Frogger Anyone?

Some of you may remember the video game called "Frogger" by Sega. It's the one where you try to get the frog (you) across a street/river without getting killed. The frog has to dodge cars as part of the game. Let me tell you...I am playing a real live version of that here in Mumbai!! Thank goodness for all the practice wandering around Berkeley. The thing is that here they play hardcore.

Yesterday, when K and I were wandering around we happened across a cow that was just casually wandering the streets. It's owner didn't seem to be around. Because the sight of a cow just strolling unrestrained down the road was so different, we followed it some ways while taking care to not be directly behind it in case it decided to release its version of "exhaust" (from the looks of the road where we first saw the cow, being hit with its "exhaust" could be quite traumatizing and filthy!). After a few blocks we were about to take our leave of the cow until we realized that, despite it wandering into oncoming traffic, the vehicles didn't honk at it. Instead they just waited patiently until it moved out of their way. Seeing this K and I decided to take advantage of this and "tailgate" the cow to cross the streets safely. (Very frequently drivers ignore the stop signal and just continue on through the intersection despite there being pedestrians. In fact, they'll honk at you to get out of their way!)