A bloke is showing two young American girls around London and they come to a Pelican crossing. He presses the button and the pedestrian signal goes 'bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep.'
'What's that for?' asked one of the girls. 'Oh that's just to let the blind know that the lights have changed' said the bloke.
'My Gaad' she said, really shocked, 'in the States we don't even let them drive.'
The managing director of a firm I worked for was American and preferred to have a copilot when driving as his eyesight was so bad. That joke is nearly true to life.
A bloke is showing two young American girls around London and they come to a Pelican crossing. He presses the button and the pedestrian signal goes 'bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep.'
'What's that for?' asked one of the girls. 'Oh that's just to let the blind know that the lights have changed' said the bloke.
'My Gaad' she said, really shocked, 'in the States we don't even let them drive.'
Did he make trips to Barnard Castle to check it?
He commuted by car at one point between Kilmarnock and Elderslie SW of Glasgow. After about a year he was stopped by police and asked why he had not stopped at some traffic lights which had been there for years. His reply was “ what traffic lights?”
There are other stories told to me by a terrified passenger who did not realise he was supposed to be looking out for possible hazards.