44 hours

It´s quite strange that I haven´t even been here two days yet, but already I have these porteños all worked out. The first important lesson for pedestrians is that traffic lights are merely suggestions to drivers that they might like to stop if it suits them. Or not. Also, like I´ve found in most driving-on-the-right countries, there is not a natural conformation to this idea for pedestrians. It makes Australian pavement walkers seem positively regimented. My third observation is that the porteño men seem to mostly possess a special expression that lies somewhere between pensiveness and confusion - I suspect it is a variation on the expression I like to adopt to suggest that I am concentrating on solving a problem that will have dire ramifications for social cohesion as we know it, thus I am clearly an important person worthy of respect.