``` the city’s roads supplant the courtesy more typical in Mexican life for a single rule: “don’t give away an inch”. For this reason, he says, “[d]rivers in Me

``` the city’s roads supplant the courtesy more typical in Mexican life for a single rule: “don’t give away an inch”. For this reason, he says, “[d]rivers in Mexico City tend to drive with their eyes pointed straight ahead and cast slightly downward”, because if they were to inadvertently make eye contact with another driver, politeness would demand that they manifest them a gap in the logjam. ``` ... I feel observed.