Drive In Saturday
Well it was on a Friday, but that wouldn't be a song title.
On the drive in on my arrival to Korea I found us sitting in a traffic jam just on the outskirts of Cheonan. The guy I was with offered no explanation as to what the reason for the stop was, and I couldn't see why we had. At the traffic lights just up from us I spotted that all the cars, no matter what direction they were facing had stopped and loads of people were out of their cars smoking and standing around.
Me: "What's happening here?" I questioned.
John: "Oh this happens once a month" He replies in an almost TOO nonchalant and evasive manner. A few minutes pass and I ask him again, in the hope that I might get a fuller answer if I annoy him enough.
John: "Well on the 15th of each month we have an attack readiness thing, where sirens go off and all the traffic is to stop. "
Me: "OH!!"
It turns out that due to the supposedly constant threat from North Korea, there is a readiness alert once a month to ensure that everyone can..... *erm*..... Stop their cars and stand around smoking I presume. I'm not sure what help this would be in a full scale military attack, perhaps they hope to rid themselves of the enemy by giving them lung cancer through passive smoking.
posted by Alanowski @ 1:47 pm
2 Comments:
AWESOME!
Reading you're daily updates about your whacky adventures fills me with a considerable amount of joy.
The only feeling i can compare it to is how i imagine it would feel like if i lived on the moon.
From keith
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