10-31-2008, 07:27 PM
I've been to Italy. Trust me, you do NOT want to drive there.
If you choose to, have good insurance. I along with a few other people watched a motorist plow into a parked car at reasonable speed, then pull out and drive away with pieces of his car dragging and sparking on the ground. The locals seemed relatively unphased by this. While my family was slackjawed, the locals seemed to turn to see what the noise was, then go back to what they were doing a second later.
In Naples, if a car fits there, it's a lane of traffic. And a gas pedal is generally treated as if it were a light switch. On or off. I saw cases of things like people backing off an on ramp when they realized it wasn't where they wanted to go (making people behind them get out of their way) and people driving with 2 wheels on the sidewalk and 2 on the road if it meant getting a few carlengths ahead in city traffic.
If you choose to, have good insurance. I along with a few other people watched a motorist plow into a parked car at reasonable speed, then pull out and drive away with pieces of his car dragging and sparking on the ground. The locals seemed relatively unphased by this. While my family was slackjawed, the locals seemed to turn to see what the noise was, then go back to what they were doing a second later.
In Naples, if a car fits there, it's a lane of traffic. And a gas pedal is generally treated as if it were a light switch. On or off. I saw cases of things like people backing off an on ramp when they realized it wasn't where they wanted to go (making people behind them get out of their way) and people driving with 2 wheels on the sidewalk and 2 on the road if it meant getting a few carlengths ahead in city traffic.
Conc / Concillian -- Vintage player of many games. Deadly leader of the All Pally Team (or was it Death leader?)
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.