Driving in Kuwait...

... is not advised unless you have a death wish or are Thomas Gray.  I read prior to leaving that Kuwait has one of the highest vehicle accident and fatality rates in the world (60,400 accidents in 2006 with 460 deaths, not to mention a high number of unreported incidents).  And this is all without alcohol!  

With this knowledge, we originally chose not to rent a car, but realized early on that we would desperately need one if we didn't want to waste hours of our day waiting for taxis.  So, every day we set off, Essential Club Anthems 2003-2005 rocking our tape deck, and risk our lives just to drive 5 miles to work.  The traffic is horrendous, people drive whatever speed they feel like, changing lanes without looking, slamming on their brakes in the middle of the highway... Tonight, we actually saw a guy driving in reverse on the shoulder of the freeway back to the exit he missed.  Not surprising, considering the popular practice of shooting directly across 4 lanes of traffic 50 yards from an exit, as if the exit suddenly appeared out of nowhere and must be reached immediately.  All highly entertaining, until you realize that you're actually in a vehicle and not behind the plastic steering wheel of a Pole Position arcade game.