Thursday, November 29, 2007

Things you don't see every day - and that's a good thing - No. 1

Ever see something that makes you think "that's the stupidest thing I've seen all week"?

Yesterday whilst driving through Mooloolaba to meet a friend I noticed a lady trying to cross a road next to a roundabout. She was on a traffic island and between her and the roundabout were two cars. The third car had very kindly held back to allow her to cross the road. This lady had a white stick which she was waving around in the vacant patch of road ahead of her. This led me to assume that perhaps she was blind, or had some visual impairment. Fair enough assumption I think. Not according to the driver of the third car who was sitting behind the wheel frantically motioning for the lady to cross the road. Hello!!! Which part of waving a white stick vaguely into the air in front of you did you think was done just for the fun of it? I only hope he didn't go onto to beep at her; how confusing a situation might that have been?

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