One more thing... you should really read George' article, it's a simple way of telling us all to smarten the hell up.
During my Western European motorcycle ride on Lil' Red... I spent a whole week with ex pat CDN, and Calgarian, Saskia. She is Dutch, lives in the South of France, keeps pretty much to herself and made an excellent tour guide for my little sidebar on riding the Continent.
During one of our many drives around the countryside, we found ourselves in her VW, chit chatting away, on a glorious summer's day, following some traffic in the local village round about. Like I say, it was hot and sunny. The sidewalk cafes were full of patrons having croissants and latte's. I should point out that round abouts are extremely common over there. They replace stop signs/lights at many intersections and are designed to keep traffic flowing smoothly as opposed to NA cities that are designed to keep traffic stopped so we can ogle retail advertising.
The point of a traffic circle is to enter and exit efficiently, smoothly and swiftly. This day, a convertible Mercedes is directly in front of us. As the driver is exiting stage right, she stops rather suddenly and without warning begins to back up into the traffic circle from whence she came. Of course this is an absolute no-no! Being directly behind her and with traffic backing up all the way round the circle behind us, Saskia quickly gives a look backwards, has no where to go of course, and honks her rather loud German engineered horn. The driver is oblivious and continues to back into us!
Of course the contact is minimal but both Saskia and the woman driving, exit and the woman begins to complain rather rudely and very loudly. Saskia (God bless her) keeps her cool and asks why she backed up into us... and did she not hear the horn blaring it's warning? Having absolutely no qualms, the driver (who looked like she had a good tan) immediately deflects Saskia's question and raising her voice further (wouldn't have thought that were possible) screams for everyone in town to hear, "Just because I am black, you people think you can do anything you want, accuse us of anything you like..." etc blah ad naseum.
To her credit as I mentioned, my Pepieux gal kept her cool and stated very loudly herself... this wasn't about her color but her bad driving habits... some people just don't get it do they!?
George... we know what you mean pal!
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