Friday, July 23, 2010
July 15 -18, Toronto
We were in Toronto for a niece's family wedding. In addition to the joys of jet lag, large social gatherings with people I mostly don't know, and staying in a place without internet access, there was also the particular joy of dealing with Toronto traffic. Once you're on the main highways, it's okay, but downtown is a painful experience. A lot of the streets are allegedly four lane, but that's a lie. A lot of intersections don't have left turn lanes, so the left lane stacks up behind that poor guy who's trying to turn left in the face of oncoming traffic. The right lane is often taken up by vehicles which are parked or just stopped for a delivery, or by construction. Consequently, you don't even have a two lane road, because you can't just stay in one lane; you have to bob and weave back and forth, while the cabbies and other psychos behind you try to cut past.
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Well, that traffic does sound bad. I don't drive anyway, but it doesn't matter if you're behind the wheel or behind the headrest, it's still unpleasant to be crawling along like that. I know an American couple who are long-term missionaries in Rome (of all places), and they've told us traffic is insane there. They say "whoever is in the front has the right of way" which evidently means people just continually push and push and weave forward horns blaring in utter mayhem not unlike a stockcar race.
Breathe.
Now give me the keys and put this blindfold on...
LOL
Yeah, right. I asked Diana to drive on Sunday, by which she knew I was really sleep deprived.
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