Eagerness
Yet again, I come back to the inadequacies of American drivers. Something I've noticed for a long time is their eagerness to get away at traffic lights - edging forward minutes before they change to green. They are also incredibly trigger-happy with their horns (which they either honk or hoot depending on which side of the pond you're from).
But the most distressing thing I've noticed recently is their attitude towards fire-engines, ambulances, or anything else with a siren: they don't give way! I've seen fire-engines having to almost barge their way across traffic lights with the cross traffic taking no notice of them at all. I guess so long as it's not their house burning down it's not important...
posted by Claire @ 11:50 pm
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If you were born before the '60s you can also toot or sound your horn. And there's the great Frank Sinatra musical Blow Your Horn! I can't help thinking of this as an innuendo. Does that make me a bad person?
Even less relatedly: I need to remark somewhere that Peterson's strike rate (currently 136 off 154 balls) is just silly.
Sorry, Pieterson. Of course.
The local joke ehre is that the speed of sound travels faster, than the speed of light. I.e. one will hear the horns before the traffic light will actually change to green.
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