Middle of the Road

After driving around this country for five weeks, I finally figured out why Irish motorists tend to just flat out stop in the middle of the road. They do this for any number of unknown reasons. Often they'll just be out in the highway sorting things in thier boot. And when I say highway, I don't mean the kinds of highways that most Americans would consider such. These are narrow roads. The Galeic word for road is actually derived from "cow path."
As the roads have widened a wee bit, people haven't adjusted to the change. The reason that they stop dead in the middle of the road is this: There is no
place to pull over.