India is filed with many things that appear totally random to American eyes. For example... SPEED BUMPS...

Normally, an American would expect a couple speed bumps in a parking lot. Not in India... because there are virtually no parking lots and there seems to be a better place for speed bumps... like... the middle of the road...

Every so often, with no apparant scheme or plan--just randomness at its most random--speed bumps suddenly appear in the middle of roads--in towns and out of towns... on back alleys and multi-lane roadways... out of nowhere: speed bumps...

One theory for their placement (at least those appearing in shopping areas or in small towns) is that they are constructed in front of the business that made the largest donation to the Downtown Business Association last year...

Even what these cement impediments are called appears random. I have sen them called speed bumps... speed bumpers... speed rollers... and speed checks... all with equal randomness...