Wednesday, February 18, 2009

You might be driving on the streets of Seoul if...

*you see a car make a right hand turn from the far left hand turn lane and it's perfectly OK and acceptable.

*you see a car make a left hand turn from the far right hand turn lane and it's perfectly OK and acceptable.

*the car in front of you stops in the middle of the road, in rush hour traffic, so the passenger can get something out of the trunk.

*an ambulance has its lights and sirens on, but no one is moving out of the way to let them pass, so they wait in line like the rest of us.

*the taxi driver that was almost side-swiped by a bus is scolded by the bus driver.

*you're followed by a police car with his lights on and are not expected to pull over.

*you see motorcycles driving up the double yellow line of rush hour traffic.

*you see motorcycles weaving in and out of traffic with any warning that they are coming through.

*you've cursed more in your short time driving here than ever before in your whole life.

*the GPS in your car warns you ever 100 meters, 1.5 km before a traffic camera.

*you've been waiting at a traffic light for more than 5 minutes, only to have a taxi/big black sedan/bus cut in front of you because they didn't want to wait like everyone else.

*the right hand lane of traffic is blocked by the taxi whose driver needed to run into the local Family Mart/Coffee Shop.

*traffic is backed up on the highway because of the line of cars waiting to get their breakfast from the food vendor on the side of the road.

*you're not sure where to park, so you choose the sidewalk.

*it takes 45 minutes to drive just 5 miles.

*you don't know the rules of the road, so you make up your own.

*your Mother-in-law says you drive like a Taxi Driver and you're proud of it!

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