Tuesday, October 26, 2004
We recently got back from a week-long trip to Vancouver, where we saw bits of South-western British Columbia. More of that later though.
I’m starting to form a feeling of what I like least about living here. So far, it’s a toss-up between the bad drivers, and the fact you only get two week’s vacation per year as standard. This is a huge country, (Canada, I mean, keep up at the back), and like the neighbours to the south, very few people bother to travel further than they can drive in a couple of hours. You’ll get a few people who’ll head to the Caribbean and stay in an all-in hotel complex, but what’s the point? Which bits of the local scenery/ethnic customs are you experiencing? May as well stay at home. I have no idea why more people don’t venture further – there’s certainly a kind of European Wanderlust in me, as in a lot of Europeans I have met. Maybe I am wrong, but the Europeans have twice the opportunity to travel as do their North American cousins. Four week’s paid vacation, for starters.
But the drivers around here continue to amaze and annoy me. I can be driving down the highway doing the posted 100 limit, with a safe and decent space between me and the car in front, and NO ONE BEHIND ME FOR AT LEAST A KLICK, when some asshole(s) decide to bang up the middle lane doing a buck-thirty-plus and pull in to the gap in front of me forcing me to brake. This happens at least half a dozen times per week, and about twice a week I’ll see someone weave across all the lanes and back again simply to get one car ahead. People! Chill!! You’re getting to where you’re going about 3 seconds earlier, and you’re putting your (and more importantly, my) life at risk. Stop it, and stop it right now. You’re morons who deserve to be struck down by Darwinism, if only you didn’t take out some innocents with you.
Rant off.
So Vancouver was nice ...
I’m starting to form a feeling of what I like least about living here. So far, it’s a toss-up between the bad drivers, and the fact you only get two week’s vacation per year as standard. This is a huge country, (Canada, I mean, keep up at the back), and like the neighbours to the south, very few people bother to travel further than they can drive in a couple of hours. You’ll get a few people who’ll head to the Caribbean and stay in an all-in hotel complex, but what’s the point? Which bits of the local scenery/ethnic customs are you experiencing? May as well stay at home. I have no idea why more people don’t venture further – there’s certainly a kind of European Wanderlust in me, as in a lot of Europeans I have met. Maybe I am wrong, but the Europeans have twice the opportunity to travel as do their North American cousins. Four week’s paid vacation, for starters.
But the drivers around here continue to amaze and annoy me. I can be driving down the highway doing the posted 100 limit, with a safe and decent space between me and the car in front, and NO ONE BEHIND ME FOR AT LEAST A KLICK, when some asshole(s) decide to bang up the middle lane doing a buck-thirty-plus and pull in to the gap in front of me forcing me to brake. This happens at least half a dozen times per week, and about twice a week I’ll see someone weave across all the lanes and back again simply to get one car ahead. People! Chill!! You’re getting to where you’re going about 3 seconds earlier, and you’re putting your (and more importantly, my) life at risk. Stop it, and stop it right now. You’re morons who deserve to be struck down by Darwinism, if only you didn’t take out some innocents with you.
Rant off.
So Vancouver was nice ...
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