1. Go straight to the corner.
One time after work, I stopped by the home-fitting mall Bunnings to buy a small plastic bucket necessary for a loser to wash his car and drove to the exit of the parking lot, only to find that he couldn't get out.
It turned out that I had to turn left to drive out, and the road ahead was full of traffic waiting for red lights, from the intersection on the left to the intersection on the right, estimated to be 500 meters.
At home, the time has come to test the driver's grip on the throttle brake, and must move in just a little bit, and then find the right time and space to insert perfectly to win the rape and anti-rape game. (see photo):
As the green light lit up ahead, the team began to start slowly, leaving a gap in the back of my left-hand front. Just as I was trying to get in, the car on the right didn't move, and the beauty driver waved at me.
An illiterate body language like me, who has always been confused about the girl's feelings, instantly understood: she was letting me go first.
Since then, I have learned that turning corners in Australia is not the iron law that I used to understand to let go. It is also very common for me to go straight.
The general scenario of the application of this latent rule is just like me this time. If we insist on going straight ahead, we may have to wait until the end of the day, so the car in the back actively let me jump in line. She may have lost a few seconds.
What if there's a parking lot in the back of me? Will she keep moving? The default rule is that each straight car will allow only one roundabout. After I cut the line, the beauty driver started to catch up, and the car behind her would continue to keep the car behind me.
Driving in Australia is also a common situation, if the traffic is congested and slow, the car on the left does not have to let the car on the right go first, and the car on the right will voluntarily leave a free block for the left car to merge. One on the left and one on the right can't be so tacit in the final round of the World Cup.
2. Emergency vehicles
Once again, I was on a narrow road with only one driveway in the same direction, and there was no common parking belt next to it. Just as the traffic was also very crowded, the speed was very slow like a worm.
At this moment, the two cars in front of me suddenly began to pull over. I looked. There was no left turn ahead, but they leaned to the left and stopped.
In the face of such a strange move, I suddenly stopped, is my car affixed with the "avoid, quiet" sign, they realize that "let the leader go first"? How can I deserve such a great gift when I speak a new immigrant who is not very good at English?
You know, the road is really narrow, and if I accept their "good intentions" to overtake, I'm bound to cross the center solid line on the right and run into the opposite side of the car.
The two cars, seeing me motionless, might have thought they had no comity in place, so they continued to pull over a little bit, leaning again and again, as if the left side of the road had created magical gravity and was sucking them over.
As I hesitated to enjoy this privilege, there was a titre behind me. Only then did I realize that there was an ambulance behind me and that the two cars in front of me were pulling aside to let the ambulance go first!
So, like them, I pulled the car as far as possible and let the ambulance through. It must have been the ambulance that didn't have to sound the alarm and saw me motionless before the siren signaled.
Making way for ambulances, rescuing train and police cars is certainly not an implicit rule, but to my shame, why are the cars in front of me sensing the presence of ambulances and I have no sense of the twinkling of lights close behind me?
Therefore, the road to Australia, must be highly sensitive to emergency vehicles, ready to give way, or it is possible to delay the safety of people's lives and property.
3, speed limit
The last experience I was going to write about was the simplest, without a first surprise or a second shock. But that shock, until now, was so unreal that it was still in fairy tales.
At that time I was in a picturesque suburb, the roadside trees towering, reflected in a beautiful lake.
A 50-kilometer speed limit and not much traffic, but I found a few cars parked in the middle of the road. There were no traffic lights, no crossroads of any kind, and no crossroads.
Is there an accident? But the cars were neatly lined up, no one pulled over, and no one got out of the car to check. The cars that followed were also lined up in the back, with no one singing the whistle protest.
There were ordinary cars, luxury convertible cars and powerful SUV cars in the middle of them, but at this time they all seemed to be children sitting in a row, quietly waiting for the teacher to share the fruit.
It was not until I got close that I saw that in front of the last car, a row of ducklings rocked across the road, one after another, and the behemoths that roared at the motor beside them saw nothing. Just like the Australian street crossing always so leisurely walk, not afraid to be hit by cars flying pedestrians.
The horsepower of the engine, in front of these weak and vulnerable creatures, put away the unstoppable air, and lowered their heads to quietly walk the eye-catching salute.
Finally, since then, I have been thinking, of course, the mantis arm when the car is not self-sufficient, but if in a society, the car is willing to take the initiative to stop the wheel for the mantis arm?