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Date: 27 September 2007 19:03:43
Have you seen those funky little speed alert things which tell you that you're going too fast and need to slow down? They flash up if you are going to fast. If your doing the right speed you just see a blank board.
They make me laugh.
We had one on the edge of one of the villages I work in. It told you what speed you were actually doing, even though you were in a 30mph limit area. That kind are fun, cos the aim is to see how fast you can get them to tell you (sadly the one outside the village only lasted about a week - I think there were 2 days when it worked, then it broke so it got taken down a couple of weeks later).
Another sort (also on my drive to work) flash up to tell you to slow down. My current aim with that one is to see how fast you have to go to get it to kick in.
Today I saw one which had different wording on it. But it had just gone off when I saw it had writing on it, so I missed what it said. So, of course, I had to go slightly quicker to set it off to see what it said.
There's a speed camera in the next village along from us that you can set off going the opposite way (ie away from the camera direction). You have to go 36mph or more, and it really worries the traffic going the way that the camera flashes.
I'm sure I shouldn't admit to all of this. But it does make me giggle.
Actually, it also makes me wonder as to why they're there. Cos I can't be the only one who does all this. And I know that people going through the camera will slow down to silly slow speed as they go past the camera and then speed up immediately after. And you also spend more time looking at your speedometer than the road. Which can't be the point.
On a different note, I saw the voice therapist (whatever it is!) on Tuesday, and it was soooooooo different from the totally rubbish speech therapist I saw before. This person was lovely, and helpful, and talked through it all, and gave me things to do to help, and booked in further sessions. And now I'm actually feeling far more optimistic.