Twinkle, twinkle little star, turn on the lights of your car

On January 19, 2008 · 9 Comments · In Living

Naomi and I are pleased to announce that it works! The sig­nal works. Ear­lier tonight, an MPV dri­ver was bar­relling down the ECP, along with his MPV of course, but with­out the MPV’s head­lights on.

For­tu­itously, I was bar­relling down the ECP on the out­side lane close enough to him to pull along­side safely and allow Naomi to per­form Twin­kle Twin­kle Lit­tle Star at the driver.

It took only a cou­ple of sec­onds for the dri­ver to change the ques­tion mark on his face to an excla­ma­tion mark, and then turn on the lights on his MPV.

We are resolved to take every avail­able oppor­tu­nity to sig­nal in this man­ner to every stealth night dri­ver we see, and then we will peti­tion first, the LTA and then the inter­na­tional night dri­ving sig­nal author­ity to cod­ify the Twin­kle Twin­kle Lit­tle Star sig­nal as the uni­ver­sal sig­nal for “please turn your lights on because it’s night time”.

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  • http://rationalneurotic.liquidblade.com rn

    I am going to try this the next time round!

  • http://rationalneurotic.liquidblade.com rn

    I am going to try this the next time round!

  • http://www.exampaper.com.sg Miss Loi

    Do you need to do it with two hands to get it to work?

  • http://www.exampaper.com.sg Miss Loi

    Do you need to do it with two hands to get it to work?

  • wei jen

    do you use the same sign when you for­get to turn off your lights and start dri­ving around the next day with the hi beam on in broad daylight?

    in that case i think it should be the twin­kle star motion with one hand and the fin­ger with the other.

  • wei jen

    do you use the same sign when you for­get to turn off your lights and start dri­ving around the next day with the hi beam on in broad daylight?

    in that case i think it should be the twin­kle star motion with one hand and the fin­ger with the other.

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  • mar­guerite french

    i’m sorry…don’t you need both hands to drive??? and also, what about good old head­light flash­ing? hon­estly, which sce­nario would you prefer:

    a. hands off wheel, knee dri­ving, hands “twin­kling” (and by the way do you also have to sign the song to make it work? is it a mag­i­cal incantation??)

    b. the quick “click click” of the head­light con­trols with one finger?

    oh dar­lings, i hate to burst your bub­ble, but this could never be the inter­na­tional sym­bols for “turn your lights on” (can peo­ple even see your hands in the dark when said offense is being committed?)

    lov­ingly,

    mar­guerite french

  • mar­guerite french

    i’m sorry…don’t you need both hands to drive??? and also, what about good old head­light flash­ing? hon­estly, which sce­nario would you prefer:

    a. hands off wheel, knee dri­ving, hands “twin­kling” (and by the way do you also have to sign the song to make it work? is it a mag­i­cal incantation??)

    b. the quick “click click” of the head­light con­trols with one finger?

    oh dar­lings, i hate to burst your bub­ble, but this could never be the inter­na­tional sym­bols for “turn your lights on” (can peo­ple even see your hands in the dark when said offense is being committed?)

    lov­ingly,

    mar­guerite french

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