Traffic, The School Bus, And Shell

So there isn't much to say about Shell, except that it's here. AND there's a guy directing traffic to the different gas pumps. That's how busy it is. Which leads me into traffic. The driving here is crazy fun to watch. People switch lanes without having room to and sometimes you end up four or five cars across on a 3 lane road. Plus people always drive fast and have to break suddenly (due to merging) and it makes for a good time. And then there's the whole line thing. To get out of the airport parking lot there are three pass-holder gates and two pay-to-get-through gates. People sort of position their cars facing one of the gates and if that line isn't going fast enough for them they back up and head to another lane. People do a lot of backing up here. Also if the line looks too long people just drive beside it for a while and then sort of point the front of their car toward the gate and merge into the traffic.

When you have to park, you sort of stop by the side of the road and turn your blinkers on. Who cares that your vehicle blocked three cars parked in designated parking spots? You'll only be a minute. Then the cars in traffic have to do their crazy merging so that they can get around you.

There are gates and security guards to get into apartment parking lots (and some of the apartment groups have swimming pools!! Not that this is related, but it's cool. I'm jealous.) And speed bumps everywhere.

The school bus I ride is like the short bus version of the Totem buses we get for long field trips. And we have to slow down to a near standstill to get over the speed bumps. Sometimes the bus stalls trying to get over them, we go so slowly. And then the driver has to back up (lol) and change gears. To get over a speed bump!! And these aren't any bigger than Canadian speed bumps, as far as I can tell. Meanwhile all of the cars and regular busses hit them at their regular speed, no problem. I find it very amusing and have to try not to laugh. Back to that Crazy Canadian thing.

-Maeghan