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> > I was one of the fifteen American drivers who knows what turn indicators are for and how to use them.
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> I am one of the two Italians that do the same...
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> > The two people who cut off the @#$#@ in question were in the wrong lane at a tool booth and instantly changed lanes, cutting across the Do Not Cross white line without using turn signals. It was a beautiful sight to behold.
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> It's usual on our highways. In 10 years on the Italian higways, I've seen:
> - people that can't decide in which booth lane to stay and end up smashing *into* the guard-rails;
> - two or three cars that converge on the same booth at the same time, trying to be the first, and end up in a terrific crash;
> - people that get in the credit-card booth, cash in their hands, and can't make it out;
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> The best one, this week, was a guy that:
> - was driving at least at 180km/h with a speed limit of 130 (+40 over speed limit = forget your driving licese and choose between 1 month in jail or a USD 500 ticket);
> - was using its mobile phone (another USD 500 ticket);
> - tried to overtake on the *right lane* a police car (another USD 200 ticket).
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> > Many decades ago, my step-father was in Rome (or Milan) and rented a car. He wound up getting stuck in a traffic circle for *hours*.
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> I *live* in the traffic of Milan. It's nothing bad, once you get used to it (if you survive...).
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> AP.

When my family lived in Naples the traffic was one of the hardest things to adjust too. I was to young to drive, but being a passanger has never been such an experience before or since. When yo actually get inside the city of Naples all laws are void, including the laws of physics. Once or twice I'm sure I should have seen an accident, there is no way both cars could have gotten past each other with out hitting each other, but they did. I belive they briefly occupided the exact same space at the same time.

Also the city would turn off the traffic lights to save power and money. I kid you not.

Also every Italian car, almost with out fail, had no side mirrors. (or had side mirror that were broken and flopped loss at the side of the car).

And quite a few kept their license plate on the dash board, my dad even did this for a while with his FIAT (which stands for Fix It Again Tony, our mechanic really was named Tony too)

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