One feature of Auckland, possibly a Kiwi thing, is the diagonal crossing. You know when you stand at a traffic light and wait for a green light to cross in one direction, let's say north, and then wait for the next green light to cross again to the east?
Well they made it easier down here - you just walk in the middle of the road in diagonal. At a certain point they just give a red light for all the cars and a green one for all the peds (pedestrians). all you have to do is run quickly and make sure you don't bump into anyone crossing in the other diagonal.
Genius.
We found out about this as we were walking into the cinema, trying to stay awake so we won't fall back into jet lag hell again. We watched Step Brothers and it was hilarious. My brother and I have a tradition. Every time I come for a visit we allocate one night for takeaway, deep meaningful conversation and a dumb movie. In the past few visits that meant Will Farrell and after the last film - Semi Pro, I left feeling that he might have run out of tricks.
I was wrong. He just needed to make a movie not about sports..
Anyway, we peed our pants and managed to stay awake long enough to almost beat the jet lag.
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Hey Oren, when you're back in London I'll show you the diagonal crossing at Clapham Junction.
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