a learning experience

I'm just back from a vacation in Scotland.  It was billed as a Presbyterian heritage tour and I did learn some things about those early Presbyterians but I also picked up some other fascinating bits of information. First of all, refreshingly, they seldom mention US politics at all. Secondly, some people from Glasgow are very hard to understand, like our bus driver. He was presumably speaking English but at a speed and with a dialect that made it difficult for even our tour leader (a Scotsman himself) to understand. I did learn some interesting new words and phrases though.  If you get very angry you're likely to "go your dinger". Our driver almost went his dinger when a tourist trying to pass our bus on a one lane road with occasional pull offs to allow cars going the other way to pass almost hit the bus and couldn't seem to find reverse. Happily this all took place in slow motion. No crash, no one was hurt, just a little excitement.  In case you're wondering the one-lane road was the only road across the island of Mull which we had to cross to get to the island of Iona, an ancient religious site.  We didn't learn until days later that this was the first time our bus driver (who had been driving buses for 10 years) had ever driven across Mull.  This incident reinforced for me the absolute sureness that I will never drive myself anywhere in Great Britain.