A modern automobile is equipped with three of these. One on each side of the vehicle and one in the interior right above the driver's head. The implied directive is - use them to aid in safe movement from A to B.
Here are ways that my blank wandering mind thinks various cultures have decided to use the interior mirror (or in some cases any mirror) instead -
1. Indians - what mirror?
2. American Women - Vanity on the go - their front end is more important than the front view
3. Germans - Working on an even more intelligent mirror
4. Japanese - Its there believe us - you just can't see it
5. French and Italians - Point it upward to the sky in case you hit your head on it...
6. Chinese and all AsiaPac island nations - good hanger for all manners of talisman and red threads
7. Less affluent - steal it - and resell it
Our first foray into Central America. That elongated isthmus that forms the geographic boundary between two vast continents of North and South America. Specifically landing for NYE 2026 in San Jose, Costa Rica. Capital city for this region that does not have its own army, instead relying on its big bro the Estados Unidos to the north is a metropolis of approx. 500K people. Largely wilderness and with both a Pacific and Carribean/Atlantic coast the country is rich in bio diversity. In Spanish it means the rich coast so named by Columbus landing in early 16th century and being mesmerized by the local tribes sporting gold jewelry. Our stay included visiting the foothills of a large strato volcano called Arenal and enjoying the naturally heated thermal baths for a while. Lunching amidst lush forest and watching indigenous species of avian noise makers fly overhead. Toucans, some sort of pea hens, multiple song bird species completed the spectacle. Iguanas and a lonel...
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