Continued story...

Modern Mart is the ‘supermarket’ at the corner of South Road and Mission (Mission being the street my little side step of a street, Mission Crescent, runs off of.) The paintings front on South, the glad-I’m-not-the-delivery-truck-driver loading area is visible from Mission.

Home Security: I like that this little place has metal shutters that I fasten at night on the one larger window; the windows have little blocks that pop out and prevent the windows from being raised more than a couple inches, also nice. These shutters are quite heavy; they are held out (open) by an iron rod that hooks into the underside of the shutter end and has an eye-hole that fits over a short post on the window sill . At night I bring the eye-hole end up off its post, back the rod into the room I’m in, supporting the weight of the shutter so it doesn’t slam down against the window. Once it gets near enough, I work the hook out of its holder, close the shutter and flip a metal lock that keeps it from being pulled open from the outside. (Then I put the screen back down, and lower the window, making sure the stop is popped out.) A little different...maybe pictures help explain better.


The ‘Traffic Code Handbook” is occasionally unintentionally amusing, because American English and British English can be rather different, and because some of the rules are different.

The Codebook includes regulations for drivers of horse-drawn vehicles, scooters, bicycles, vehicles, pedestrians, roller-skaters and ‘riders and persons in charge of led horses or other animals’.

Under the “Lamps” section:

• “Dip your headlights when meeting other vehicles on the road. “

• “Switch off or dip your headlights when you are following another vehicle which you do not intend to overtake. “

• “Do not use your headlights unnecessarily, especially in lighted areas.”

Huh?

• “When you are held up at a road junction by a police officer regulating traffic, do not filter unless you are given definite indication to do so by him.”

• “Make as little noise as you can. Do not race your engine when your vehicle is stationary. Sudden noise acceleration is unnecessary and disturbing. “(I fully agree.)

• “Give regular attention to your brakes and see that they are always efficient.”

• Scooter drivers are to “keep a straight course and do not wobble about the road.”

• “Avoid roller-skating at night on roads where there is heavy traffic, and if you do skate at night remember that, where the light is poor, you are often practically invisible to an approaching driver until his vehicle is dangerously close.”

• For night driving: “Reduce speed when dazzled and look to the nearside kerb. Do not retaliate.”