I just saw someone almost knock down a woman and her baby in a pushchair as they tried to cross the road with the green man. Here it is allowed to make a right turn even when there is a pedestrian crossing around the corner with the green light on for pedestrians. I imagine you are supposed to look first to see if there are real human beings already on the road as you swing your car round the bend but today a man in a large car didn´t bother with such niceties – after all he was in a hurry to arrive at the pre-school to collect his granchild!
What surprised me was how everyone reacted – the woman just pulled back her pushchair to let the car past, the other people also stepped back but carried on chatting, the man in the car drew up a few yards further on and calmly went to the school to find his child.
I seemed to be the only one feeling angry. I considered yelling at him but in the end came here to the locutorio to write about it.
That does seem to be the Catalan way. Not big pitchers of fits.
Not they aren’t and nor am I normally. But things like waiting for hours in Vodofone because they haven’t got enough staff and having shop assistants ignore me because they are too busy chatting does rattle my cage and I imagine ranting and raving. People here wait so patiently. I thought it was the English who did that. K x