Odd Things

Lest we sound like we are tooting our horn too much about living here, we do have to let you know that there are some 'strange' and funny things. This is one of them:

If you look carefully, that is a U-turn traffic light. That's correct. This is no trick or something made up. It's on McPhillips. Did you know that in Luke's driver's ed, he had to learn about this particular U turn light, the only one in Manitoba, and what to do when you approach it? If you need to make a trip to the mall, you come to the u turn lane and wait for your light to change. Instead of a left turn signal beaming in front of you, you get a u turn light. And when it signals all this traffic will stop and let you through. Think that's crazy? That's not all. Have you ever heard about the Manitoba merge? That's another thing that they teach here in driver's ed. If you have to merge onto the perimeter highway (the freeway around here) and there is on-coming traffic and no room for you to get into the lane, you are supposed to stop at the end of your ramp. That's right. Stop at the end of the ramp. When all is clear on the road, then, after halting all the traffic behind you who are ALSO trying to get onto the perimter, THEN you can merge. It's the law. It also happens. It's why some Winnipegers avoid the freeway altogether b/c they don't kow how to merge.

Something else: this big sign downtown is to try to help you navigate through something called 'confusion corner.' Confused just by looking at the sign? Imagine how confused you'd get just trying to follow it while driving! You're better off memorizing the map before heading this way. Or better... just avoiding it altogether!!

We could say more. But we'll leave it at that. It's tempting to say: It just doesn't get any better than......!

(Rich)