Monkey X-ing

Yesterday I took a break from Mumbai by catching a bus to the nearby hill station of Lunavla. As the bus plodded along I spied two monkeys sitting on the side of the road gazing at the passing vehicles. That was cool. Then suddenly, a whole group of monkeys darted across in front of the bus, and frogger like, made their way across the entire 6 lane highway. I was shocked. You rarely see animals cross US freeways so boldly. I couldn't decide if these monkeys were very stupid for not fearing the cars, or if they were very smart and had learned to safely cross the road. As I debated with myself on the topic the bus reached my destination. The driver stopped to let me off, right on the side of the highway, with my destination across all 6 lanes, and down the on-ramp. As I dashed across the street in flurry of monsoon rain, I finally decided that the monkeys were very stupid.