The mirror adjustment place sign

I often see it when I drive on the A2 towards Utrecht. Not that I drive there often (since I work in Amsterdam and live in Haarlem), but when I do, I see it. Somewhere just before the exit Vinkeveen. And if you take the ring at Sloterdijk station and head left towards Haarlem, you'll see another one there. My colleagues think I've been on absinthe, but it's really there: a sign that says ‘mirror adjustment area‘.

So that's what we have in the Netherlands. A mirror adjustment area. If you feel the need for it, then ‘we’ have made a spot for that. I don't know how it is for you, but I personally don't often feel the need to fiddle with my mirror. And if I do, I either do it while driving or just in the parking lot at the gas station. As far as I'm concerned, there’s no need to create special adjustment spots for that.

I keep calling it a Freudian mirror finishing place, because come on, guys, you're more likely to be fiddling around there than actually adjusting your mirror a bit, right?

Because my colleagues still didn't believe me, I decided to Google the phenomenon. And sure enough, a Wikipedia page popped up immediately. I was still bragging about wasting taxpayer money when the page unfolded.

Because a mirror adjustment area, correction: a mirror adjustment area has been created for trucks that can adjust their mirrors using lines on the pavement, which prevents accidents in the blind spot.

Of course, I was really about to hit ‘select all’ and ‘delete’ halfway through this post, but oh well. a. it was still quite an entertaining story, b. I might save you from making the same blunder, and c. you now have a nice Wordfeud word to use.

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