Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Car horns were invented for Chinese drivers

 An okay photo of  the traffic a typical intersection in China. It is usually much messier than this :) .

Scott gave me an entertaining book for Christmas, Lost on Planet China, by J. Maarten Troost. [Thanks, Scott!!] I like how he describes the ridiculously constant blaring in the streets.

"Chinese drivers, I was discovering, speak with their horns. They blast it when they're about to pass someone. They blast it while they're passing. They blast it when they're done passing. Then they blast it some more just because."

It gets old, fast.

1 comment:

Scott said...

I got mentioned in a genuine internet blog - I feel like a celebrity! A celebrity that gives awesome presents.