After español class today I was walking up to Wal-Mart, my mind a million miles away, when I was about to walk across Alvarado – a very busy major street and intersection!

Woa – I almost got sideswiped by a taxi!

My mistake?  I was looking at the green pedestrian walk light across the street – forgetting that it’s not necessarily unusual to see the signal lights mis-matched to each other in Mexico City!

Closely look at this photo (click on image) and you’ll see the traffic’s moving on Alvarado (corner of Puente de Alvarado and Arriaga near the Monument to the Revolution), the pedestrian green signal is lit across the street, and a poor guy is stuck in the middle of the street!

You learn quickly to watch your step down here, like don’t walk into puddles on the sidewalk – it may be a one foot (or more) hole – as a young, hapless woman from our Casa learned the hard way a couple of months ago!