I believe we just changed recently, from a law that you had to *yield *to pedestrians in the cross walk, which was never followed or enforced, to this newer law that you must STOP, not just yield. This seems to have had very little effect except to ensure that nobody really knows who’s going to do what, so those of us trying to follow the law are pissing off pedestrians (who were waiting for a natural break in traffic to Frogger it across the street like they’ve always done) and pissing off the cars behind us who can’t see what the fuck we’re stopping for in the middle of the goddamn street.
I love laws that promote road rage. Especially in a city full of guns.
Makes sense. Chinese bathrooms often have an open shower area that is not distinct from the sink and toilet area (and may be right above it), with a single drain the the floor. Most showers have a squeegee and slippers to help mitigate the fact that your entire bathroom gets wet in a shower.
Tubs are relatively rare. Some people might not connect them with “bathing area”.
Rural Spain.
Triangular warning sign with silhouette of a cow. Beneath that a rectangular sign attached saying “TRACTORES”.
I guess that is so the Madrilenos know what the picture represents?
In the parking lot of a university hospital where I worked a few years ago, there was a sign “Street Level Enforced 24 Hours.” I have a picture, but it’s paper, not digital.
In some cultures (Japanese, for instance), you wash outside the tub… the floor of the bathroom basically being designed specifically for that… using clean hot water from the tub (with a pitcher or scoop) and then soak in the tub full of hot clean water AFTER you’re clean.
Someone from that background might legitimately not notice a hotel bathroom wasn’t set up for that until it was too late, like one bucket-full of water on the no-drain not-water-impermeable bathroom floor later.
I’m picturing some humorless senior state road department bureaucrat starting his meeting to review new road signs with the comment “You misspelled ‘break’” and the thing just spiralling downhill from there. But maybe I’ve worked with too many humorless bureaucrats.
Tru dat. If it were morons in both directions, there’s a distinct chance they’d try driving in the wrong lane at the same time, to the regrettable survival of both.
That just proves that stupidity isn’t really reliable as a disqualifier to reproductive success and genetic propagation. More’s the shame.
