Wednesday, May 30, 2007
SOUND PAINFUL
Friend-of-a-reader Amanda visits the Monaco Grand Prix and reports: “The sound was extremely painful without earplugs.” Understandable, considering how close to the action she was:
Whoa! Any closer and Amanda would be incorporated into that front wing. Monaco might be the last place spectators are allowed such access; when I first went to a motor race in Australia, we watched from a shallow grass verge on the main straight as cars shot by.
No fence. Spectators were noticeably alert to the possibility of something careering into our midst.
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