It's snowing outside. Fine, white, young virgin snow swirling in the wind. I'm in a new office, in a new building sitting on top of an impressive labyrinth of underground passages. Montreal is a place of many secrets.
Tipping the contents of a sugar packet into my coffee at the cafe, a tall blond woman walked up and began speak to another, presumably a colleague.
"I got a good ticket last night."
The other woman mumbled something I couldn't hear.
"It was 'Stop Sign'".
"Stop Sign"? Is that some musical or theatre production I didn't know about?
The other woman mumbled something else I couldn't hear. The blond woman was beginning to look somewhat exasperated. "It was because I did an American stop."
Oh. She meant she'd committed a traffic offence — not sure how I thought it was a musical!
So, can someone tell me, what is an "American stop"? How's that different from, say, a Canadian stop?
Posted by sniffles at November 04, 2003 08:55 AM