I have driven in Paris. Only once. Never, ever again. Rick
--- On Wed, 5/6/09, Doug Franklin <[email protected]> wrote: > Madame RD wrote: > > > dom from Paris, where drivers coming from other cities > end up on the verge of a nervous breakdown ... when the only > thing to know is : NEVER slow down even when you're lost > ! ... > > Back in the mid 1990s, I took a business trip to Paris that > involved renting a car. I arrived at Orly and headed for > the Hertz counter. Ironically enough, the girl behind the > counter was from the Atlanta area and doing a spell in Paris > as a "swap" within Hertz. > > Her: "Mr. Franklin, have you ever driven in > Paris?" > > Me: "Nope, just the US and Germany." > > Her: "OK. In Paris, there's one primary rule you > have to remember: if you can't see it through your > windshield, it doesn't exist." > > Me: "<chuckle> Good one!" > > Her: "No, you don't understand. I'm *not* > kidding!" > > Me: "Hmmmmmm" > > And, as it turned out, she was right. If my driving > "tactics" considered anything except the stuff out > my windshield, I ended up getting nowhere, and in the wrong > lane to get out even if I got somewhere. :-) > > -- Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) > -- 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.
