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Our drive home from Cornwall took an interminable 10-plus hours (it took a mere six hours to get to the beach). We blame traffic tie-ups and an over-eager TomTom (navigation device) that encouraged us to take a detour when the M5 was allegedly closed for a 78-minute backup. 
Should have stayed the course. Soon we encountered another accident (digital road sign was good for some head scratching, best we could tell it read 'Slow Down, car overturned, divide by π'). But truth in advertising - we did indeed pass an overturned car. Now about that pi...The only, only, only bright side (I'm really stretching here), was our unexpected drive by the one-and-only Stonehenge. I'm hoping our next visit to the world-famous landmark will include more than a distant snapshot. But here it is in the distance.
2 comments:
Ah, the pi is the 'lane closure' symbol. Otherwise known as 'this backup is a mess as we are taking 3 lanes and making them into 1' On the plus side, England -- and all of Europe -- actually knows what a zipper merge is, and does it, so it isn't the free for all US version, where people won't let others in, so it tends to move pretty quick.
Beg to differ. Mergers are much more polite in the us
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