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Saturday, March 31, 2018

Weird

Now here's an odd sort of thing, followed by an even odder sort of thing. Often when one leaves the parking lot at Plaza Renon, there will be a long line of cars waiting to exit through the pay station, for there is but one pay station and one way out of the lot. Curiously, it does not occur to most drivers of motorbikes that they must cue up behind the cars that are already waiting. Rather, they zip along the sides of the cars and insert themselves as near as they can to the pay station. Odd enough on its own, and something for which one might be shot or at least severely beaten in America; but here is the odder thing: they insert themselves as well in front of motorbikes that have been dutifully waiting in line behind the cars, even up to the moment one finally approaches the exit! One wonders at the thought process here. Do they think, 'Well, the motorbike is smaller, so it will take a shorter time to pay and exit'? Or do they think, 'Well, there's no sign posted that disallows this practice'? Or do they suspect that the cars are lined up for some other reason? And how is it that they boldly angle even in front of a motorbike that has already been waiting in  line? Would not the common American be either ashamed or afraid to do such a thing? And yet to look at their faces, they would appear to be completely unaware of anything being amiss. Of course, I am in no hurry. I'm never in a hurry. But it's the principle of the thing, you know? Sometimes I will laugh, sometimes I will say something to indicate that what they've done is pretty damn rude, but neither response seems to excite much interest. In a word, it's just weird.

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