The more expensive the car, the less they know (or pretend to know) of the traffic rules. A BMW never uses lights when turning to the right or left. A Mercedes never slows down, the others have to go away and get lost. Anything that is smaller than one's car has to disappear, or it will be horned, flashed, cursed or thrown things at. Pedestrians? What is that? What? They don't afford a car? To hell with'em. Cyclists? Bastards jeopardizing traffic. Other drivers? They aren't in the same rush like our Bucharest Driver (TM). One way streets (I happen to live on one)? The Bucharest Driver (TM) MUST drive in the opposite direction to prove he/she is a good driver. When approaching a crossing with traffic lights, the Bucharest Driver (TM) MUST speed up and go on yellow or even red; otherwise, if he stops at the traffic light, he/she must be the first to start when it is still red, loudly engaging and horning, then rush in the crossing, horn and curse all drivers there. The others? There we go again: the others do not count, they are not in a rush, they have smaller and cheaper cars. So they can go to hell.

That is the Bucharest Driver's way of thinking (or rather lack of brains), so beware of traffic in this city and in this country generally. Therefore, I have a message for all Bucharest drivers (for, be them academicians, doctors, merchants, bankers or whatever, they all, without a single exception, behave similarly when in traffic, and they are 'never' the guilty ones):

"Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match."

(Karl Kraus)