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    Default Steet Directory Syndrome

    The other thread about female navigators got me thinking about another strange phenomena ......namely.

    When you are driving and are in a hurry and need to refer to the street directory all of a sudden all the traffic lights will synchronise to turn green.

    OK sometimes they will tease you by being red,,,only to turn green when you stop and put your hand on the directory...that has inevitably fallen onto the passenger side floor facilitating releasing and then a hastily, fumbled refastening of ones seatbelt.

    This phenomena is so constant I feel it must be a Universal Truth like Murphy's Law...............or am I the only one to have noticed this?

    Has anyone else noticed? (add twilight zone theme music here)

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    Yes I have experienced this but I think there is a logical explanation for it: the guys in the traffic control room are toying with you
    "I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."

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    It is a universal constant.

    A similar thing occurs when smoking, it only falls from your lips when driving in shorts in busy traffic or high speed on a freeway .

    Glad I got a gps and gave up smoking in 2002, some types of excitement we just don't need in our lives

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    Yep!! Definitely a universal law. Also works with kids dropping stuff on stretches of road with no stopping opportunities.
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    And when the kid says "Gota go to toilet...NOW" there will be nowere to stop and solid traffic.

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    Thumbs down Green lights

    And when you want ta take a bite of yousandwhich.
    And when you want to sip your hot coffee.

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    Or reach over a get a drink out of your fridge

    Does anyone know if it's actually illegal to eat and/or drink while you're driving? Someone once told me it was but sounds like a myth to me.
    "I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."

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    Now come on surely not

    Never had any trouble like that driving heavy vehicles, directory sat nicely inside the steering wheel, as did the Daily Telegraph coffee sat at my right, hand burger on the dash a quick bite or sip between gear changes and turning round corners problem

    But those woman putting on their make up in their little cars wondering all over the road not to mention trying pulling on pantyhose between lights

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    Its illegal to drink an alcoholic beverage but not a softdrink in NSW anyway. Bleedin wowsers!

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    Yeah thought so. What about leaning over and getting a drink out of your fridge while you're hurtling down a freeway at 110kph in a B-Double full of paper?
    "I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."

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    obviously out of reach should have had the fridge right at his elbow so when he opened it up his hand went straight to it..

    No different to putting in a Tape/CD/DVD using CB radio, two way radio, smoking looking for that lighter. turning round to slap the kids or stop the fighting.

    never have those problems on two wheels just use a long straw

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    I'm waiting for a Braille street directory. I can't drive with my reading glasses on and can't read a street directory without them...and I can't stand a womans voice telling me where to go.
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    Why is it that the place/ street you want is always right in the middle of where the bluddy directory is stapled/ glued/ concreted together?

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    Third Law of Street Directories.

    "Street Directories shall not be used when the radio is turned on"
    Thank God for senility... now I don't feel so silly any more.

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    I hate being navigator because as soon as I look down at the map I feel car sick.
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