Question: What do Pukenui in New Zealand's Northland and the Isle of Lewis 20+ miles off the North West Coast of Scotland have in common?
Answer: People stopping their cars in the middle of the road to have a chat.
Does that happen anywhere else? Could that happen anywhere else?
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I suspect there may still be remote places in Sweden where it could happen... It's been a long time since I've been to any such remote places myself though. So I can't be sure! ;-)
ReplyDeleteYes Monica it probably is more a rural pastime although there are few places where the roads are sufficiently quiet not to annoy others.
DeleteI have seen it quite often on UK motorways. Folk parked up nose to tail and side by side. I'll check next time to see if they are having a gossip.
ReplyDeleteYes Adrian. I hadn't thought of that. British motorways is a very good reason for living in the North of Scotland and New Zealand (provided you live outside Auckland).
DeleteHappens here all the time....was actually thinking of doing a post on this custom someday.
ReplyDeleteSome of them don't even care how long they chat for......in traffic with frustrated drivers behind them, invariably many horns are blown to get these folks moving along.
That photo looks like it could have been taken right here.
I suppose, Virginia, in many places it may be a sort of laid back approach to life that allows it.
DeleteYes, it happens in the prairie provinces of Canada where the population is very sparse. My Dad was embarrassing when it came to stopping people on the road. Mostly he just wanted to know who it was.
ReplyDeleteThat's amusing Red. I've been up to the North of Canada and I can imagine it happening there too.
DeleteI've seen it happening many times here in Ludwigsburg, a town of 89.000 inhabitants. The most likely candidates to do that here are the bus drivers.
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