Do you know what I found? No time is the quietest in Ireland... not around here anyway.
The shops are always Christmas-eve packed and the roads are always thronged with vehicles, no matter when you do it. At least if you do so within drink licencing hours... admittedly, I haven't tried it at 1 or 6am.
It's heading for 10pm as I write this, having come back from Tescos Maynooth, and the roads were congested with throngs of motorists. At that time. I naively thought I'd have a nice relaxing spin to pick up some essentials in relative quiet at that hour, but it was not to be. And no, they didn't all have the same idea as me - this is just "normal" west Dublin 'burban traffic.
I've asked this before... how is it always so busy? Always. Petrol might hit the €2/litre mark soon, with diesel not far behind. People are supposed to be up their hoxsters in debt, the dole queues are swelling (though maybe not as bad as late seventies/early eighties just yet), people are supposed to be feeding their famished - but still somehow overweight - kids cornflake packets, and goodness knows what else.
If you ever get the time to listen to the gobshites who ring up Joe Duffy, you'd swear everyone is going around without an arse to their trousers. Or knickers, or whatever.
To me, it still looks as though the bubble never really burst, in this part of the country at least. Apart from slightly more realistic real estate valuations.
There is still something apparently inexplicable going on.
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I am surprised at you GM. Don't you know that most Irish people believe that ignoring reality means it does not exist?
"To me, it still looks as though the bubble never really burst." And that's a deeply disturbing fact. The amount of traffic in Dublin and for that matter in all of the other urban areas, at a time of economic implosion is extraordinary.
"There is still something apparently inexplicable going on." The word STRANGE would be nearer the Mark GM.
Sorry, GM, can't quite follow your argument ... what exactly is wrong with sitting in your SUV with motor running after the 300 yard school run talking to another mammy in her (also running) sporty little number about those outrageous petrol prices?
@ DB. I had forgotten that little truism!
@ Dakota. Yep. Tried it again this evening, for the crack (note: not "craic"). Still the same.
@ Bernd. There's a matter of etiquette here. It is all quite fine once they are sporting a pair of designer sunglasses on the top of their heads.
Its amazing really how so many people actually manage to waste so much goddamn money. Would they not be better off paying off their mortgage. What are all these people actually working at?? Are they all on huge money.I know families on a joint income of 70000 euro who wont change their cars and would prefer to save the money. I still believe that there is people out there who refuse to bite the bullet on their debt.
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