in soviet russia, two turntables and microphone got YOU

*discard

When I lived in Beirut, the hardest thing for me to get used to was the way people behaved when driving a car. It was as though the horn was an acceptable substitute for the brakes. A colleague of mine explained, "Everyone drives as though the street was a gift from his father." It turns out, though, that a lot of the horn use was very short taps letting pedestrians know that there was a car behind them (people walked in the road often because of very narrow or obstructed sidewalks), or to warn people that a car was coming when approaching a blind intersection (narrow roads, no traffic lights). The first couple of months there I was really jumpy, I heard horns and always thought I was going to be hit by a cab. Eventually I came to appreciate it and understand it as a courtesy of sorts. Now I'm back in Brooklyn biking around and I get annoyed that cars DON'T give me a tap or two before passing me.

On the other hand, Beirut is the only place that I've ever been honked at as a pedestrian by guy driving on the sidewalk telling me to get the hell out of his way.

sounds like me when I play guitar hero

does it make a loud buzzing sound if you slip?

velvet worm is in serious danger of crossing the streams