dinner at a co-worker's house, and on the way home we got lost. It was kind of late, so her husband decided to do a u-turn... things were fine for a few minutes but then we were suddenly faced with an onslaught of headlights, and realized that the yellow line and arrows and signs were all deceptive, and due to [unmarked] construction we were going the WRONG WAY ON A FOUR LANE SUPERHIGHWAY.

We screeched to a halt, but there was no shoulder and suddenly every one of India's 1 billion people was speeding towards us in a car. Everyone was panicking, but i was distracted from the oncoming traffic and thoughts of imminent death by the temple elephant lumbering by on my left.

[slow lane?]

12:18 p.m. - 2003-12-05