Civilisation At Last

Hello everyone! I’m in Mexico-no-I-don’t-have-swine-flu-yet and am having a fantastic time. Mummy has been struggling a bit with the chilis inserted into every dish available, but I personally enjoy having my face burnt off when I lick the edge of a tortilla, so I’m sitting pretty.

Mexico really is actually a lovely place, once you get past the border towns where the druglords keep shooting one another, and very clean indeed. They disinfect every table and area around it between diners; who’d have thought, eh? This is the cutting edge of civilisation and, to act as a shining beacon of this, I have for you a video of the coolest pedestrian crossings my little beady eyes ever did point glazedly at.

I’ve nicked this from Youtube, as Mummy can’t figure out how to sort videos by herself and, well, it was already online so why go to the effort? At Mexican crossings, as in America and Canada, you get a little picture of a walking man and a countdown on a separate screen showing you how long you have left, so you can reasonably guess if you will make it or not. Useful idea; yes. Can be improved upon; certainly.

Mexico has a little tiny animated LED man, who walks across the road, just in case you hadn’t figured it out for yourself. But to up the ante, he speeds up the closer the timer gets to 0! By the end, the little fellow is sprinting as fast as he possibly can in his little box, and any pedestrian cannot really help but do the same.

Is this a bit pointless to write a post about? Possibly. It might not be one of your main reasons for visiting Mexico, but it’ll certainly brighten up your day.

A Link, because I am too lazy to figure out how to embed it

Los Mochis, Mexico - Greg