I can relate to the European driving! When I was in Italy I soon discovered
that the green light meant "Go and haul butt", the yellow meant," what the
heck go and haul butt" , and the red meant" ahhh go for it and haul butt".
And it seemed so strange to see 4 or 5 people on those moped looking little
scooters going just as fast as they could !

Patrick
student SPL
aircraft structural mech


"Cub Driver" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 31 May 2005 16:49:08 -0400, "Morgans"
wrote:

That was one thing that I really remember, that made a strong impression
on
me, in Paris. When the light changes, the first car and the 20th car all
step on the gas! It was like formation driving.

When I drove through the Mont Blanc tunnel, and after I paid the toll,
a woman signaled me to pull over. She'd been in the car behind me. I
rolled down my wind and got hit by a torrent of Italian. I tried to
answer, and she, realizing I wasn't Italian, launched into French. I
tried to answer in French. Since I couldn't speak either language to
her standard, she realized that I must be American, so she switched to
English: "WHY YOU GO SO SLOW IN TUNNEL?"

Evidently I had broken the formation.



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