Talk about your missed perceptions...on both sides of the pond!

I've always thought that the roadways of England were as polite as tea parties.

You seldom hear of anything traffic-related...but when someone like Mr. Bean is busted driving his McLaren the way it is supposed to be used, it makes huge news.

[[yeah, I know his name...and I consider him Britain's Charlie Chaplin of our times, fully brilliant comedy and beyond!)


Here, most of the freeways are filled with folks who don't notice how their stressful lives cause them to go faster and faster. While our former national speed limit of 55mph was too low for the open roads, I don't think the current 70mph within city limits is a good thing at all...especially with the differential with the 'lorries', which have a speed cap 5-10 mph lower. Because laws are written by those who have never driven large trucks.

Funny you should think us slow drivers, when all I can see are berserkers careening from jobs they hate to home lives they can barely tolerate before the alcohol starts to work. I avoid rush hour as if it were filled with the plague. It truly is...stress is a plague.


Cheers!