[Coco] Re: OT -- Texas and highway laws in general

[Frederick D Provoncha]

Hi Diego,

Well my wife was only in Uruguay for about a year and a half. But she
remembers quite vividly walking down dirt roads in the "campo" at night
and having to quickly dodge out of the way as unseen cars or motorcycles
with their headlights off whizzed past. She spent most of her time there
in the countryside. In the big cities, of course, she said people used
their headlights, but that they still drove crazy in her opinion :-)

BTW, she also thinks New Yorkers drive crazy. That's where I grew up.

Fred Provoncha
Stansbury Park, UT

> I hope there was a mistake there. In the 30 years I lived in 
> Uruguay, 
> I've never seen something like that.
> As a matter of fact, a few years ago they passed a new law that 
> forced 
> the drivers to keep the lights on even at day when using a highway.
> May be that was in Paraguay?
> 
> Diego
> 
> 
> Frederick D Provoncha wrote:
> 
> > My wife has been to Uruguay and down
> >there people don't use their headlights at all, even when it's 
> totally
> >pitch-dark out. They don't seem to mind running the significant 
> risk of
> >hitting an unseen child or an animal or a rock or a tree in order 
> to save
> >a little bit of money on gas.
> >
> >Fred Provoncha
> >Stansbury Park, UT