Don' t you hate it when you drive up behind someone and their indicator is on (turn signal to some of you) and you initially asse they are going to do something, then as the miles roll by you realize they have just forgotten about it? It seems to usually be an old geezer too.
Well I am sad to announce that I AM that geezer, and have been so for, oh, the last 1,000 miles or so. No wonder the Nicaraguan passport control charged me an exorbitant $45 to stamp my passport into Nicaragua (numerous travellers have gleefully told me they only paid $12 - such being the competitive nature of extreme - backpacking it seems). I protested at this huge fee but they (a second immigration officer came over to get in on the action) refused to budge.
But now I think I understand - my Spanish is glacially slowly improving but I hadn't learnt the phrase 'geezer tax' yet. They must have seen me riding up with my right indicator on for miles and being such a traffic law obeying nation decided I must be levied appropiately.
Unfortunately I well aware of my 'geezering' but am struggling to keep it under control. The reason is that the indicator switch on handlebars has about 1 mm difference between the left, off, and right selections. I knew this before hand and even installed a little dummy light on the dash, but one of the diodes blew a while back and now it only flashes when the left indicator is on.
I can actually see the right front signal when I am riding, but in the bright, directly overhead equatorial sun I just can't see whether it's on. Hence my long geezery drives.
Sorry Central America - you just don't deserve such an affront to your highway code!
