Choque del dia II.

As I promised, I am coming with the second edition of the "choque cultural" situations:

• Wedding list - when spouses and the witnesses are signing the wedding document, they also put their fingerprints on the it.
• Traffic - Imagine the situation: traffic jam, crossroads, where traffic lights are turned off and police officers are directing the cars. Pretty simple. But not here - the policemen here are doing all the possible movements to speed up the cars. It is more like art performance here - waving, smiling on the drivers, running from one corner of the intersection to another. It looks like they really enjoy their work.
• Have you ever had a feeling, that in Prague after the LC meeting it takes soooo much time to move from the meeting room to the office, pack the things and move to pub? I did... until I experienced LC meeting in Panama. Here I am not able to say, if the meeting is over and we are just talking or we still solving something. When we finally get out of the classroom, we are standing at the corridor and talking, then we slowly move the the lower floor and stop, because we have to talk for a while. After another few minutes we finally manage to get to the ground floor, where we again talk for a while. Then we move to the parking lot and guess what... After we finally get to the cars and are ready to leave, half an hour is already gone.
• Traffic - drivers don't use the direction indicators when changing traffic lanes on the road - the reason is very simple - because they change the lanes so often, that they would have the traffic indicators turned on 90% of the driving time. Therefore when you are driving in Panama, you have to foresee, what the drivers in front of you want to do. If you see, that some car wants to move to your traffic lane in front of you, you have to honk in order to prevent the accident. If you think, that the car wants to move to your traffic lane, you have to honk. If you have feeling, that the driver might be thinking about moving to you your traffic lane, you have to honk in order to prevent the accident. Conclusion - you honk all the time, when you see some car in front of you.