At 18:23 5/10/2000, Andrew Grebneff wrote: >Just be glad you Floridans get the reject Canadian drivers; Canadians >aren't good drivers, but at least they have some level of courtesy. New >Zealand drivers are really bad, and utterly discourteous as well. > >Andrew I've driven in Auckland and Wellington, and (speaking as one who drives in Boston a lot, or did then) I thought the drivers were pretty mild. What gave me the willies were all the cliffside roads with 200-foot drops, and little 2x2 white painted sticks to indicate that driving off the side would be quite a bad thing, all in all. Over here we would make quite a serious attempt to keep the car on the road. But somewhat to my surprise there didn't seem to be a blob of crumpled tin in every patch of gorse at the bottom (just sheep). Two other things struck me -- that driving there seemed to be "women's work," and that a Toyota engine is really pretty small when accompanied by a total lack of smog gear (this was 1985) and a manual choke. david ps -- they had the same little sticks in OZ, but not the cliffs, at least not in Melbourne. pps -- if anyone has read Dick Francis's _In the Frame_ -- I've stood at the place where Our Hero went swimming through jagged rocks to avoid being shot. Didn't realize it until a year or so later, when I was reading the book for the nth time. And I bought a soda at what might have been the store where he bought his shirt. David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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