Monday, October 09, 2006

Traffic in Brazil

Over the weekend Shannon and I did quite a bit of running around the city. We had two experiences that had never happened to us before. The first was coming to a traffic light that was red. Naturally, we stopped. We waited a while, then the light turned...YELLOW, and about three seconds later it turned green. So, were we supposed to proceed with caution on that yellow?

The second experience was even stranger. We were heading home and an ambulance was coming up behind us with it's lights flashing. This is a common occurrance here so we didn't think much of it until we could hear the siren. We both noticed that the siren sounded really odd. As the ambulance got closer we could hear it clearly. Instead of the traditional ambulance siren, this ambulance was playing the theme song to "Mission Impossible!" This is not a joke! Fortunately, the ambulance was not taking a patient to the hospital, he just had his lights on to get people to move out of the way for him. (We know this because we saw him pull in to the ambulance station a minute or so after he passed us.)

We thought you might find these traffic anomalies as interesting as we did.