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You lot are doin' me head in. I had trouble at ONE roundabout with ignorant CANADIAN drivers, and all of a sudden I have a problem? Oh, pu-leeze!
Believe it or not, traffic is traffic the world over. The only differences I've found (apart from over half the world driving on the wrong ber-loody side of the damned road) lie in courteousness or the lack thereof. Even in the worst situations, courteous drivers abound. Anyone who can survive driving in Auckland rush-hour traffic is fit to take on the world, at least the bit that I've seen, and that ain't all that inconsiderable ...
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Somebody's cranky and not getting enough nap time. Boy, you talk about one pear-shaped fuzzy snorty body and someone's vestiginal wings get tied in a knot.  Cap. I was not saying you had a problem. I was admitting that we drive like lunatics. Less ignorant than kamakazi I think though. I would think every country has that one city where strangers absolutely hate to drive.
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over half the world driving on the wrong ber-loody side of the damned road
Cain't be USns. We drive on the right side of the road.
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Cain't be USns. We drive on the right side of the road.Which just goes to prove, Dave old mate, that you can be both right and wrong at the same time. A bit like being married, inn't? Is this a YART? 
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A bit like being married, inn't?Don't. Just don't.  
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right and wrong at the same time
Just like words, Dave, old buddy. As long as ever one else agrees with you, you can drive on whatever side you want.
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. As long as ever one else agrees with you, you can drive on whatever side you want.
Unless, of course, you're into risk, big-time. Isn't that how trends start?
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you can be both right and wrong at the same time. A bit like being married, inn't?
Thank you, CK, for the opportunity to post a recent series from the Non Sequitur comic strip, on the theme of "Why We'll Never Understand Each Other [male/female]"
what she said: I do.
what he heard: Your right to independent thought and ability to form an opinion has been revoked.
what she said: Honey ... why don't we turn off the TV and just talk.
what he heard: Honey ... Why don't you put your head in a vise and I'll turn the handle until your skull explodes.
what he said: Honey ... Are you almost ready yet?
what she heard: Life as we know it will cease to exist unless you can alter the space-time continuum
what he said: Mom is coming over for dinner.
what she heard: Anything less than absolute perfection makes you an utter failure as a wife and mother.
what she said: Tell me the truth, honey ... Do I look fat in this?
what he heard: I'm going to make you wish you were dead for the rest of the week.
what he said: Honey ... Do you know if we have any more triple-A batteries?
what she heard: It's your lot in life to stop whatever it is you're doing in order to serve my every need!
what she said: Drive carefully, dear.
what he heard: You're way too stupid to be trusted driving alone in bad weather.
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Us folks in the west apparently don;t do things right. In the early 1950s the state built a toll road between Boulder and Denver. I don;t know what the toll was, but it probably wasn't much more than 2 cents a mile or so. Anyway, the day the toll road authority paid off its last bond they ripped the tollbooths out. That was probably 25 years ago. And you can still see the foundation for one of them.
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But not all traffic rules are the same. It's axiomatic in places where people drive on the right side of the road to yield right of way at an unmarked intersection to another vehicle approaching from the right. And if you are making a left hand turn you yield to the guy approaching you going the other way, right?
Well, not always, according to the car rental people in Adelaide. They warned me that in one of Australia's states, the approaching car has to yield to the car making a right turn. I can't remember which state, but I can remember thinking that is just plain counterintuitive.
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