On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:59 PM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nope. I hail from the region of Canada that has the worst drivers in the > country. > We don't use turn signals. > We don't shoulder check. > We either drive 15km/hr over the speed limit of 15km/hr under, unless we are > on the highway, in which case it's 30km/hr under. > We have no idea what the left lane is for, but we are sure that we'll want > to turn left at some point, so we'd better stay in it (and travel 15-30km/hr > under the speed limit). > We don't use mirrors (though some ladies do use the vanity mirror for > applying make-up, generally while travelling 15-30km/hr under the speed > limit in the left lane). > Yellow lights create a Pavlovian response in us towards the gas pedal. > We are red/green colour blind. > We aren't close enough to the car in front until we can't see the tail > lights. > Stop signs are just a suggestion. > We are tough, we yield to no one. > You see a pedestrian on a sidewalk, we see a moving target. > You see a pedestrain in a crosswalk, we see a moving target wearing a > bullseye. > No on told us that the game of points for whacking pedestrians isn't really > a game. > Every one has right of way, the person who has the nicest car yields (our > one tip of the hat to defensive driving). > > Good times. You moved to Toronto? And you didn't tell me? (not that I blame you) cheers, frank - from the ~real~ home of Canada's worst drivers -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
