fights in Egypt and Turkey by Zander

My family and I posing in front of our Taxi in Alexandria

            In some of the places that we have been there have been some really serious street fights. The ones that I remember the most are the ones in Turkey and Egypt. In turkey I saw a fight, late at night, while we were driving through Bursa. In Egypt I saw a fight while we were driving by in a taxi.

            In Turkey, they are known for scary driving. When we were there, I found out that they have tempers too. I think that maybe it is their temper that makes them such crazy drivers. In Bursa, late at night, there was a scooter crash in the middle of the street. The guys that crashed into each other got of their scooters and fought it out. They fought until some people that were walking on the side of the road pulled them apart when it got serious. I thought that finghting was a more direct way of letting you anger out then suing people. If I were them I would have wanted to punch the guy that I had crashed into too. There are some really high temper drivers in Turkey and on some occasions they fight.

Our chanes that got broken on our trip to Uludag

            In Egypt, I saw a street fight. I was in a Taxi and we were driving around a turnabout in Alexandria. A scooter driver went in front of a pedestrian who was trying to cross the street. The guy that was crossing the street hit the driver because the scooter driver blocked the pedestrian walking path. The scooter driver got off his bike and started hitting the guy that was crossing the street. I thought that it was kind of funny, but it probity would have escalated if the pedestrian hadn’t walked away. If the pedestrian had stood his ground, we would have gotten more pictures. I think that the pedestrian shouldn’t have hit the scooter driver, so it was his fault, but I would have been a little ticked off if I were walking and a scooter blocked my path.

            These are just 2 examples, but we saw a lot more fights. In turkey the cars bump into each other a lot. When they do, people get out of their car and yell at each other. Someone bumped our car. But when the driver saw my dad he got back into his car and drove away.