Back from Egypt! - Updated w Installment 3 (Baksheesh)

December 10, 2017, 10:09 PM

The Egyptians have some unconventional ideas about traffic, too. It’s very crowded, of course. It is considered cowardly to use one’s brakes. The horn will do, beep beep!

There are one way streets, but it is a matter of dispute which way that one way is. Signage is not to be relied upon.

Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown

December 10, 2017, 11:52 PM

flashguy

quote:
Originally posted by JALLEN:
The Egyptians have some unconventional ideas about traffic, too. It’s very crowded, of course. It is considered cowardly to use one’s brakes. The horn will do, beep beep!

There are one way streets, but it is a matter of dispute which way that one way is. Signage is not to be relied upon.

When I was in Tehran, Iran in 1970 they had one-way dead-end streets....

flashguy

December 11, 2017, 05:13 PM

IntrepidTraveler

quote:
Originally posted by flashguy:
quote:
Originally posted by JALLEN:
The Egyptians have some unconventional ideas about traffic, too. It’s very crowded, of course. It is considered cowardly to use one’s brakes. The horn will do, beep beep!

There are one way streets, but it is a matter of dispute which way that one way is. Signage is not to be relied upon.
When I was in Tehran, Iran in 1970 they had one-way dead-end streets....

flashguy

Hey, you guys are stealing the thunder of a future topic! Although you are 100% correct.

_{Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
- Dave Barry

"Never go through life saying 'I should have'..." - quote from the 9/11 Boatlift Story (thanks, sdy for posting it)}

December 11, 2017, 10:11 PM

flashguy

quote:
Originally posted by IntrepidTraveler:
quote:
Originally posted by flashguy:
quote:
Originally posted by JALLEN:
The Egyptians have some unconventional ideas about traffic, too. It’s very crowded, of course. It is considered cowardly to use one’s brakes. The horn will do, beep beep!

There are one way streets, but it is a matter of dispute which way that one way is. Signage is not to be relied upon.
When I was in Tehran, Iran in 1970 they had one-way dead-end streets....

flashguy

Hey, you guys are stealing the thunder of a future topic! Although you are 100% correct.

And you haven't lived until you've faced the signal-controlled intersections where the traffic lines up abreast across all lanes (in both directions) and then has to fight to get back onto the right side when the light changes.

flashguy