The 'Drive-like-Mad Max' syndrome

Whether it's your first time driving here or you're a seasoned professional you'll know then that driving comes with a price. The price of a godly measure of patience coupled with the audacity of a kamikaze driver. If you can mix those two ingredients into your character then you'll do just fine.
Venture out into the streets during a busy day and you'll be inevitably confronted by all sorts of hazards. One thing you just can't get enough of is the over-abundance of cars, cars, cars, and more cars. There are enough cars for the whole world to drive...and some. As a result almost all the streets in Athens are congested with traffic. Speaking of which, I don't know why the news people on the radio report on traffic. Instead of specifying two or three roads that people use to get to work, they should make it easy on themselves and just say 'all of the roads in Athens.'
Another obstacle that you have to somehow avoid are 'the never ending construction sites.' Greeks love to live like sardines, so they keep building and building until they find somewhere they haven't built yet; or, they tear down something they've built and build on top of it. Do you think I used the word 'build' enough times? Anyway, the obstructions that some of these sites create close off roads and force people to have to either wait(until somebody decides to redirect traffic) or drive in reverse. People too create obstacles.. Greek people jaywalk all the time.. They create their own crosswalks wherever they feel is necessary. And they love to take on the role of a crossing-guard. They just stick their hand out and stop whatever car is in their way.
If you've ever seen the Mad-Max movies you'll know what characteristic of driving I'm alluding to. These post-apocalyptic marauding bands drive like a blaze of fury through the desert reeking disaster on whoever is in close proximity to them. Their cars look like armored vehicles and are equipped with all sorts of weaponry designed to impose heavy damage on whatever it is that they have their target on. Greeks too drive like they want to pillage and step on whoever is in their path of destruction. But, most of the time this chaos is the result of those who want to follow the path of least resistance and drive like the racers in the movie, 'Fast and the Furious.' Or, better yet, maybe i should use the term - Fast and the stupidly dangerous' to better describe the situation. It's as if they have some uncanny sixth sense of avoiding conflict and dodging everything that's in their way. However, what they don't realize is that this driving behavior is the cause of all the mess(accidents, traffic, etc..) we see out in the streets today. I recall parking my car in a Alloy's big parking lot, and as I got out I saw a car in the distance fishtailing a bunch of figure eights as if his tail caught on fire. The smell of smoke and burning rubber filled the air. After they felt they had enough they left the scene and filled the air with their putrid stench the sound of sardonic laughter accompanied them. I felt like picking up a couple of stones and tossing it at those hillbillies but then I thought it over again and knew that it would have been a waste of time; so I got back in my car and rode off not bothering to stick around.

Analogy: There's a scene in the movie star Wars where Anakin Skywalker jumps out of a flying hovercraft in order to chase a villain. On his way down he avoids getting hit as he swiftly glides through the air through multiple layers of hovercrafts. This death-defying act is a piece of cake for Anikin though since he has the power of the force. I believe there's a similar conceptual environment of the future and the way that cars would evolve in the movie, 'the Fifth Element.' Now, if you compress all those layers of traffic into one you are confronted with non other than the Greek driving condition. It would be a miracle if they can implement those layers here; but even if they one day succeed in doing so, the people on the ground would have to watch out for falling cars.

God Forbid: God forbid you should ever find yourself injured and stranded and in need of a paramedic. The ambulance will probably arrive late to pick you up, and the trip back to the hospital would probably be just as bad, if not worse.