I just laugh because every day the report is "Traffic in Eastern Idaho is moving smoothly". A whole section of a state! This morning a traffic violation stop was reported in Idaho Falls, a fender bender in Pocatello and ice in the mountains.
"People in Rexburg, you'll want to watch out for the fender bender in Pocatello. Maybe leave a few minutes early for work because uh, traffic could get backed up 80 miles. There's a look at our traffic and weather for this morning."
Though they overlooked an accident on the main highway between Rexburg & Idaho Falls this morning. Saw the cop cars & fire truck, too. Nothing. I'm not saying it's not reliable, I'm just saying . . . . uh, yeah, it's not reliable.
Now, the traffic reports in D.C., those are nothing to laugh at. Though comparing Idaho to D.C. traffic, it is laughable. Cairo traffic is even worse than D.C., but they didn't have traffic reports for Cairo, or at least ones that I could understand. What are they going to say?
"This morning, Ahmed left his donkey in the middle of the road while he went upstairs to have tea with his brother-in-law. Traffic slowed to a crawl around his cart and then picked up for a block. Then Sherif decided he needed to turn left when he's in the far right hand lane. Picking his way across 5 lanes of traffic, he finally succeeded, but clogged traffic all the way back to Ahmed's cart. And we're back where we started."
*for emily! to see cairo traffic*Anyway, just something that made me laugh this morning.
NaBloPoMo update:
**seriously, i am barely hanging in here, people. i'll say it again, i'm all about quality, not quantity. i'm a perfectionist. and really, why did they have to pick november? why not september or march? the months where a major holiday doesn't occur? couldn't they see that june was lonely? i'm trying my best to get things in order, write blog posts and pack. visiting grandparents that don't have access to the internet could pose a problem for me. but don't worry, i'm determined**
7 comments:
I totally remember shaking my head at the traffic reports while I was at school there. And I loved your Cairo report. Hope you have a safe drive and a Happy Thanksgiving!
Can't you upload some Cairo pics so we can see the traffic? I'd love to see Ahmed's donkey blocking Sharif!! :) Hilarious!
YES!! I love it!
"Ahmed--move your dang donkey over to the slow lane, buddy!"
Ah Rexburg - I remember those traffic reports...hillarious:) We will be up in Idaho for a week in December - I am hoping we can catch up with each other! Hope you have a great Thanksgiving - all the years we lived in Rexburg we went to the Penrods for Thanksgiving - good food and company - we will miss it this year!
Totally agree about the November thing!
OMG that Cairo traffic report!! ROTFLMAO Too funny!!! Sadly i think that was what happened on the Ring Road this morning. LOL Awesome!
I actually found it somewhat annoying that there was never any news about Cairo traffic.. I mean sure, the traffic was in general, quite crazy, but sometimes there were incidents that were truly spectacular and out of the (Cairo-)ordinary enough to make news - except that it wouldn't, and I'd never know what happened!
I think the biggest indicator of how insane it was, was when we started to forget to tell each other about accidents. In the US, even the teeniest of bumps is worthy of phone calls, multiple SMS's, consolation emails, police, insurance, and all that drama. In Cairo, my husband would have a taxi slam into the back of our truck on the way to work, which usually didn't do much damage to the truck, but you know, enough of a smash to get out and check - make sure the taxi driver survived, exchange some 'no problems', etc., but by the end of the workday, he'd forget to tell me (no, he wouldn't call at the time either). Several days later... oh, we got a new scratch (and yea, for some reason they were all on the rear of the truck), did I tell you about this one? How about this one? Oh no, that one is mine from last weekend... :p
S is for Stau, G is for Germany and Stuttgart covers both ... Stau is a traffic jam and our AFN reports cover Southern Germany. It's NOT Cairo ... it's civilized slowly rolling parking lots ... like DC only way more attitude and the locals drive BMW, Mercedes and Porcshe with a burning need to max perform their machines ... as soon as they get 20 meters of autobahn!
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