paliometoxo wrote:vaughanwilliams wrote:Gasman wrote:When I lived in Limassol, just off Makarious, my neighbours (fit and well and in their mid twenties) used to take their car from the under block car park (a five min job in itself) and circle the one way system to drive and park behind Ta Tsiporakidos (sp?) - you could SEE the fish tavern from their apartment, it was less than 200 metres away! They'd eat and drink in there all night and then drive back home (so drink driving too - but then he was a copper so I doubt he'd have 'got done' for it). I just could not understand it. And yes, some of them took the car to the local kiosk, not even half that distance, to buy a newspaper or ciggies and would park on the double yellows (or even on the zebra crossing). Then, as before, have to drive back quite a long way round because of the one way system!
Whenever I'd express amazement at this, they'd either say it was 'too hot' to walk, or 'too cold' to walk, or 'too wet' to walk! Or, sometimes, that they would walk but they had a back problem! I find walking easier on my back when it is playing up than even trying to GET INTO my car!
It's well known Cypriots don't walk anywhere. And won't park further away than a few metres from the door of where they are visiting, even if there is a free car park round the corner!
"...won't park further away than a few metres from the door of where they are visiting, even if there is a free car park round the corner!"
It definately is a Cypriot thing. Up here, if the doors were wider I'm sure Cypriots would drive INTO the shops!
lol thats one thing i will agree with you on, cypriots are mostly stupid drivers who cant park to save their lives and when they dont find parking they park in the middle of the road and block others! they park up the sides of the road all over my uni and make it impossible to go past!
i think this is due to our standard of driving test, when i took mine it was simply drive back and forward and you have passed, now its a little harer you drive forward for 5 minutes they ask you 5 questions about the road before getting in and then you pass, btw you have to get 3 out of 5 correct, while i bet in america and places like england where they have a hazards vdideo aND 30 QUESTIONS on a touch screen computer and you have to pass that and then wait so much time before going for a practical test, i think this is good and most people here even though they dont get their full license until 18 drive stupid and need to have license taken away
Up here the test is like the old UK test. Drive round the block and ask a few Qs from the Highway Code.
Problem is the TRNC DLA says everyone must have 10 hours (?) tuition with an approved school. You pay the school for 10 hours and after 1 or 2 hours they say you are good to go for the test. That way they keep the extra money and the Driving Test examiner passes just about everyone because the driving school owner is his "friend".
My wife took the test here and said she should have failed because she was so nervous, she made loads of mistakes.
She still passed.
