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Subject: [OM] Re: [OM]OT, Way, way OT Re: Oops!
From: asud journal <asudjournal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:41:01 +0100
Sure Thomas, when we see english people driving we though that they 
have just three speeds on their cars;-)
But we think that the italians are most crazy than us. Try to drive in 
Milan or Roma and you will know that i mean
  and why they called themselves "tiffosis":-)
Loïc

Le 24 janv. 05, à 17:18, Thomas Clausen a écrit :

>
>
> On 24 Jan 2005, at 15:28, asud journal wrote:
>
>>
>> Not at all, paris is a nice city for driving, at nigth:-)
>> Loïc, un Parisien.
>>
>
> As a foreigner living in Paris, I can confirm that there are traffic
> rules in Paris. It's just that they only apply to foreigners. For
> locals, they're not as much rules as they are suggestions and ideas,
> which one may -- or may not -- chose to follow at the parisian drivers
> own discretion.
>
> I've had to jump for my life (literally) in a pedestrian crossing (it
> was green for me) when a police-car (without horn and flashlight)
> decided that "read light == go". The officer driving just gave me a
> grin, then speeded on -- not even bothering to stop to see if I was OK.
> No Zuiko's were damaged in the event.
>
> No wonder the metro is as popular as it is here.....
>
> I've been living here since '99. When I drive here, my parisian friends
> think that I drive like an old lady -- my danish friends think that I
> drive like a crazy person.....
>
> --thomas
>
>> Le 23 janv. 05, à 20:54, Julian Davies a écrit :
>>
>>>
>>> The problem is not that no-one can drive in Paris, it's that no-one 
>>> in
>>> Paris
>>> can drive!
>>>
>>> Julian
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Gordon Ross" <gordross@xxxxxxx>
>>> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 5:15 PM
>>> Subject: [OM] Re: [OM]OT, Way, way OT Re: Oops!
>>>> PS. I have heard a lot of Brits say that nobody can drive in Paris
>>>
>>>
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