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# Lessons from London's roads
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2006/07/lessons_from_lo/
- Published: 2006-07-26T11:26:08.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T09:25:41.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: commuting, driving, london

After a week and a half commuting through south London in my trusty car, I have made the following observations:

- “Mirror, signal, manoeuvre” appears to have been replaced by “manoeuvre, mirror, (optional) signal”
- The correct response to any form of hesitation on the road is to immediately overtake. This is doubly true if there’s a bus involved.
- The car is the best place to do your make-up, especially if you’re the driver
- The correct form when stepping out from between stationary traffic into oncoming traffic is to ignore the car frantically doing an emergency stop to avoid reducing you to a fine, unobservant paste, until the very last minute. Then, you freeze like a rabbit in headlights, before laughing and carrying on across the road.

Despite all this, it’s *still* more enjoyable that taking the train into central London.