Lessons from London's roads

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• “Mirror, signal, manoeuvre” appears to have been replaced by “manoeuvre, mirror, (optional) signal”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.