> Behalf Of Julia Thompson > I haven't experienced this directly, but my father-in-law is an electrical > engineer specializing in microwave communications, and on many a > cross-country trip would point out microwave towers whenever the car > passed one. So by the time his sons got to college, they knew a microwave > tower when they saw one. >
My father's specialities were fire stations and steam trains. No matter where we went, there'd be the inevitable diversion to find one or the other. My kids groan when I read out or follow the instructions on the road signs. For example, throughout New South Wales you get the sign "Narrow Shoulders on Bridge", so you have to hunch up, don't you? Just as well I don't ride a pushbike, because there are often signs up hills saying "Cyclists Use Left Shoulder" - surely a physical impossibility? Then there are the signs about angry koalas, "Koalas Cross Here" And with summer coming up, we'll start to see the Irish sheep hereabouts. You know, the ones that are all shorn? Brett
