irish ignorance - the best sort!
perhaps not so much ignorant as mind-blowing, but still...

my brother was at coleraine university. during one holiday he was staying with a friend on a farm in the heart of the irish countryside. driving him into town one dark night down country lanes with no streetlights, she was fast approaching a fourway crossroad. to my brother's horror, she turned the headlights off, floored the accelerator and shot over it.

"what are you doing?" gasped my brother, who was now ready to chew his way out of the car.

"it's easier to see if anything is coming if my lights are off," explained his irish friend, baffled at his concern.

"that sort of makes sense," my brother said doubtfully, remaining unconvinced.

"oh, don't worry," his friend said easily. "everybody does it!"

of course. the system will work just fine if everybody does it... needless to say his friend had not thought of it that way at all!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 10 Jan 2005, 15:13, Reply)