TRAFFIC - The bane of the UK. We are a tiny country - 874 miles is the greatest distance between any two points in Britain (so if you hate someone in Land's End, Cornwall, to get as far away from them as possible, you could move to John O'Groats, Scotland. Or emigrate, obviously).
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theory then, getting from A to B in the UK should be a piece of cake, right? You couldn't be more wrong! There are 60million people in the UK. 73% of households have one car, but a staggering 5% have three or more! What they do with these cars seems to be to put them directly in front of wherever you want to go. A few Bank-Holidays ago, there was a 200 mile tail back on the M1. That's a quarter of the length of the country! Sadly, public transport is no better. It's underfunded, not integrated (so the train you wanted leaves just before the bus you caught to get to the train station arrives) & unreliable. I'd recommend a bike (motorised or otherwise) but then sadly there is our delightful weather to contend with...
ROAD COURTESY - If you flash another driver who is indicating, it means 'I am letting you out' (with your headlights I mean, not the other sort of flash! That'll get you done for 'gross indecency' & 'driving without due care & attention'). In the UK, all speed cameras are bright yellow, & we have warning signs to warn that there is one on the next bend. This leads to mental anguish on the part of the driver: do I chance it, or slow down? (an estimated 40% of cameras have no film in at any given time).
BANK HOLIDAY - A public holiday when the banks are shut. They are nearly all on Mondays; except Good Friday & Easter Sunday, which of course aren't. The reason for other dates is more obscure: May Day & Spring Bank come to mind. In Scotland, they have an extra one for the day after New Years Day (Hogmanay). Traditionally, a time for families, so in years gone by, all shops would shut too. Nowadays with the 24 hour culture, on Bank Holidays families traditionally spend time together dragging their protesting offspring around furniture stores, or sit in a traffic jam on a motorway trying to get to the seaside.
