A traffic light is a brainless machine (2)
“certainly, “ I replied. “It’s a stop signal and means that traffic is rolling in the other direction.”
“half-right,” said the driver,” but incomplete. A red light is only an automatic stop signal. And it does not mean that there in cross traffic. Did you see any cross traffic during our trip? Of course not. I slowed down at the light, wholesale replica designer handbags, looked carefully to the right and to the left. There was not another car on the streets at this hour. Well. Then! What would you have me do? Should I stop like a dumb animal because an automatic, brainless machine turns red every forty seconds? No, monsieur,” he thundered, hitting the door with a huge fist.” I am a man, wholesale designer handbags, not a machine. I have eyes and a brain and judgment, given me by god, and it would be a sin against nature to surrender them to the dictates,. Of a machine. Ashamed of my self, you say? I would only be ashamed of myself if I let those blinking lamps do my thinking for me. Good night, monsieur.
Is this bad, is this good? Frankly I no longer am sure. The intellectual originality of the French is a corrupting influence if you are subjected to it for long. I had never before doubted that it was wrong to drive through a red light. After more than a decade of life in Paris, However, I find my old Anglo-Saxon standards somewhat shacked. I still think it is wrong to drive throng a stop signal, wholesale coach handbags, except possibly very late at night, after having carefully checked to make sure three is no cross traffic. After all, I am a man, not a machine.
Home page: www.ghandbag.com
Send email: ghandbag@hotmail.com
My name: Irene
Do you like this handbag? It is only $25
没有评论:
发表评论