driving

Number one son drove me to church this morning and after driving on very empty roads but nevertheless having to stop at and wait at 7 red lights for nobody - he drove straight through the next one (after looking carefully around of course) and shocked us all into total silence.   It reminded me of a journey we took whilst living in Spain -  we went along a long empty road a few miles from a small town and came upon a crossing showing a red stop light and being good Brits and used to rules we stopped and waited....and waited...meanwhile we were hooted and overtaken by quite a few Spanish locals.  Eventually, after looking
around for a hidden Guadia car we quickly sped on our way but it took us a couple of miles before we stopped looking out for flashing blue lights.  It still makes us laugh to this day when we talk about it but we are unable to say for sure whether we would do the same again.