No honking

No honking, originally uploaded by sazztastical.

I know this won't mean much to anyone reading this blog but after being over here for more than 3 weeks one of the things we won't miss is the constant honking of car horns. Oh my God. It never stops. The weird thing is though it's never done in aggression like it is at home. If a car is driving along and someone is riding a bike that they're going to overtake then they'll toot a very times just to let them know - thing is there are hundreds of cyclists and pedestrians and then you've got the cars that they just overtake so it's a constant cacophany of tooting car horns that basically no one pays any attention to because everyone does it all the time.

Obviously, I needn't add that this is the only sign we've seen like this and of course no one was paying it any attention whatsoever. I've yet to find any road laws that anyone seems to obey anyway so why they would heed a warning sign I don't know - a red light doesn't really mean stop over here so a sign with a line through it isn't really going to cut it :)