"Miss, the bridge was gone"Back home, when I was young and still in high school, we had these lists circulating of excuses you could use when you were late for school. One of them was ‘the bridge was open’. In Holland this is possible, an open bridge. We have boat traffic, and sometimes the boat is too high to go under the bridge, so the bridge has to open. This can take up to 10 minutes if it is a big bridge.
Here in Lebanon, we can also use this excuse since last summer, but we adapt it a little to ‘the bridge was gone’. The traffic jams are getting a little less now, since a number of the 70-something bridges that were bombed have since been repaired, or have been replaced by a temporary bridge. (Very childish, I might add, of the Israelis, to bomb all these bridges. Half of them were never even used by Hezbollah.)
Here in Lebanon, we can also use this excuse since last summer, but we adapt it a little to ‘the bridge was gone’. The traffic jams are getting a little less now, since a number of the 70-something bridges that were bombed have since been repaired, or have been replaced by a temporary bridge. (Very childish, I might add, of the Israelis, to bomb all these bridges. Half of them were never even used by Hezbollah.)
Still, a trip to the south or the north of Lebanon still takes substantially longer than it used.
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