Friday, June 1, 2007

A crosswalk, a bus, and an unfortunate papa

Imagine a rainy day. Imagine the Indy 500 w/go-carts (motocarros) rearing to go at the drop of the starting flag. Imagine a crew member darting across the start line before the flag is raised. Imagine the crewman 1/4 across, still safe, still no flag raise or drop. Imagine a bus in the middle of the starting line. Imagine the flag being raised, crewman now half-way across. (NOTE:Peruvian motorists do not wait for green, only for traffic to clear.) Imagine Papa in front of the bus. Imagine Emily doubled over, cracking up after Papa faces the now moving bus, looks across the street (no room there), the bus again, and then dances his way back to the safety of the curb. In the US, green means GO, in Peru green means GONE.

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