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
This autumn the weather gods cooperated as we took a family trip in the northeast to see six states that qualify or makeup what is known colloquially in America as New England. Mass, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island (tiniest state in the union). The outing helped tally up the states we either lived in, visited or have worked in to 47. Guess which three have eluded this intrepid traveling family. Any rate the drive was all in about 1,800 miles and included some memorable geographic wonders or points of interest. Easternmost part of state of Massachusetts being one. Furthest drivable road east in Mass being another. Visit to all Ivy League schools (term harkens to a collegiate athletics conference and generally regarded as elite academic institutes of some repute worldwide) is another random bucket list item of which this trip afforded the chance to knock two more of the list. Dartmouth in Hanover, NH and Brown (and its sister institute the RISD - school f
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