At 01:38 AM 10/5/01, Brett wrote: > > 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"
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