The creep
Not a person... the creep is what happens at almost every crossing in BA. When the light is red for the pedestrians, they pile up at the side of the road and take a step onto the street, then two, then three... then you realise that they're really staking out their bit of the road. In the meantime there are usually taxi drivers and motorcyclists and bus drivers whose mental processes go something like "light's green, so I'm allowed to run them over" and they contunue thundering through, horns blaring. Any sign of timidity in the driver's behaviour and the crowd will immediately start crossing and only a particularly determined motorcyclist (or a bus that's
really not stopping) will force them to wait again.
It got so bad that the city government (slogan: Actitude BsAs) has created the Guardia Urbana, the sweatshirt wearing, whistle blowing youths who, having failed to find work in swimming pools, now blow their whistles and officiously wave the hoards back... what they really need is El hombre del cruce verde, the green cross man, only for adults... probably with a gun, what the heck, you probably need Darth Vader to do the job here (if that leaves you scratching your head, well look on imdb to see who played Darth in the original movies).
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