The answer if you’re on the interstate (or Venezuelan equivalent) is….. go shopping! I witnessed this firsthand. When the traffic slows to a crawl, locals stand in the middle of the interstate (not in the median, not the shoulder, but between the two lanes of traffic) and sell things.
You can buy:
1. Food - cakes, cookies, chips, mangoes, other unidentifiable rainforest fruit
2. Household items - pillows (for sleeping in the car?), kites
3. cell phone car chargers (useful),
4. DVDs including Hancock and Wall-E (clearly pirated unless I missed some straight-to-DVD special deal for Venezuela)
5. Beer. Not kidding, when there’s traffic, people sell beer to the motorists.
Monday, July 28, 2008
What to do in a traffic jam
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Who knew you'd bring back such cultural knowledge along with presumably heaps of medical knowledge?! Thanks for all the fun tales! We're glad you're home safely!
Yet more evidence that my idea of the car to car communicator is needed. And the heat-ray gun.
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