Indications

I have been observing the drivers here in BsAs for some time.

You're standing at a junction late at night (ok, at about 9:30pm) waiting for the opportunity to cross. A car comes along with its headlights on full, slightly blinding you. It slows down but doesn't actually stop, continuing to move towards you until it suddenly speeds up and passes you. As it crosses in front of you, you catch a glimpse of the driver gesticulating wildly in your direction. It seems that the 'slow down' was accompanied by a waving gesture indicating that you should cross. Of course, what the driver doesn't realise is that you can't see a damn thing because of the headlights.

You're standing at a junction at any time of the day. A car pulls up opposite you. As the cars along the cross road are a fair distance away, you take the opportunity to start crossing the road. The driver opposite you however, is so intent on checking whether there's traffic to his right that he can creep out in front off, that he (and I use the pronoun advisedly) doesn't notice you crossing and starts to pull out, almost running into you. At the last minute he checks the way ahead and the shock on his face when he realises that you are less than a metre from his front bumper is comical to see. Luckily his car is only creeping out.

You're standing at a junction (yet again) and you see a car coming along. Interestingly its right indicator is flashing - why interesting? Because you can only turn right into about 50% of the roads in BsAs (it's that damned one-way system) and the next road is definitely no right turn. But, of course, the driver has no intention of turning right, he (or she, but mainly he) hit the indicator by mistake and isn't aware of it. The thing is the car will go merrily on its way indicating right until it actually makes a right turn at which point the indicator will turn itself off and all will be right with the world. The upshot of this is that no-one takes any notice of indicators. I don't know if people ignore indicators because they are misused or they are misused because no-one takes any notice of them.

You're standing at a junction (there are a lot of junctions - a product of the grid system on which BsAs is designed) and along comes a car with both indicators flashing - in other words, its hazard lights are going. You look around for the hazard, wondering why the car is moving so slowly and then you realise... Unlike anywhere else in the world, in BsAs the hazard lights aren't there to warn you of danger, they're just telling you the driver doesn't know where she (yes, I said she) is going.

And I'm sure they believe themselves to be the best drivers in the world