Driving in the rain

No I'm not back in Ireland yet!! I am still in Thailand. The rainy season has come one month early and it has come with avengance!! And yes I do have a liscence and I am insured to drive here in Thailand, just to assure anyone who might be concerned about that!! Driving in Thailand is certainly not boring!! Flying umbrellas, plastic etc etc. I Also have learnt something that will perhaps make me less frustrated when I drive my motorbike. When I am driving my motorbike and am about to come on to a main road waiting for the trtaffic to clear, cars often flash there lights, inside I'm thinking of course I'm not going to pull out I'm not a total idiot. But I've learnt that this is what you do when you are driving a car in Thailand - otherwise the car/motorbike will pull out right in front of you even though this appears in my mind to a completely crazy thing to do. Just a different way of looking at things!!!