I, who have never driven a car, know, in no uncertain terms the significance of the red, green and yellow lights at traffic signals. Even I, who is disinterested in the art of going from point A to point B, have been known to push up my nose from the book and admonish the driver for confusing the significance of the blinking lights at crossings.

All this till I read...
what the mayor of Napels had to say. ( Napels is the most chaotic city for drivers, even most Italians say so). "The green light is a green light, avanti, avanti," the mayor explained. " A red light - just a suggestion." And yellow? he was asked. "Yellow is for gaiety."

Now this IS a point of view that I do appreciate, so does EVERY Tata Indica cab driver in India, just for slightly different reasons than mine.

I like the disregard for the attempt at standardisation, the complete disregard for fitting into rules created by someone I donot even know( must be by the same guys who discovered censorship) and was certainly not consulted with before implementation!

I like that mayor, I must invite him for a drink on a 'dry day' in India...and discuss his take on that!