Apptech wrote:
> My wife will assure you that the following, while ever so slightly
> embellished, is essentially true.
> So. Take my wife's hand firmly. Firmness I know will be necessary. Against
> eminently sensible protestations step into traffic. Walk steadily.
> Difficulty is enhanced by terror stricken tugging on my arm. Walk
> resolutely. Keep steady pace. Ignore screams and supplications and 
> tugging.
> To succumb to the temptation to cut and run is to risk death at the hands 
> of
> confused Vesparians. Ulysses at the mast cannot have been more resolute 
> (his
> crew did not allow him the option), or needed to be. And lo, the Vespas,
> Fiats and many other types part and pass around us. At terrifying and
> unabated speed. No horns blown, no startled drivers. just business as 
> usual.
> Not catching the eye, steadily, screaming and tugging we progress across 
> the
> maelstrom to the further shore. Moses watching his masses cross the Red 
> Sea
> can have been only slightly more impressed and relieved. Death at the 
> hands
> of the Romans seemed for us to be hardly less imminent than for his host 
> at
> the hands of the Egyptians. Lacking either Fire or Cloud ours is by far 
> the
> lesser spectable, but still a moral victory and a life experience. I 
> haven't
> tried it in Egypt.

Just read this.. ROFL! :-DDD

Vitaliy 

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