I Just Can't Get Right
Thursday, August 17, 2006
With our German licenses in hand we are now allowed to wreak havoc upon the Bavarians. Driving isn’t too different from the states except it's faster, more signs, and more laws like the Good Samaritan law. Yes Seinfeld fans it exists here, and if you are convicted of not practicing it, you can be imprisioned for up to a year. “Es ist sehr wichtig, wo die zweite Taste auf einem Hemd ist. Es kann das vollständige Hemd ruinieren.”
The other odd thing is the right before left rule. When you come to an intersection that has no signs, the vehicle (car, bus, trailer, bicycle, horse drawn cart – no seriously, just look at the diagram) to the right has the right-of-way. There are of course exceptions, when there are signs posted, when the other vehicle is a streetcar, when it’s a VW bug driven by a gnome named Jasper (which there is a rather large contingency of). Other than that motor on. Now I just gots to get myself a couple of pairs of latex gloves. Its the law. For driving of course. What else would I use them for?
posted by Don Taylor @ 2:44 PM,
