Sirens? Look around, assess, make space. This may involve stopping, but equally may not (this is what I was taught in driving lessons earlier this year).
Behind the sofa - I've always lived in very small houses where sofas are against the wall (actually, usually bookshelves, but this is not usual), but in larger houses they may be arranged around a coffee table, so that some are more towards middle of the room, or have a tall light behind them, or even a console table. When I was a child I used to crawl behind the sofa (it sloped backwards, so that only the top actually touched the shelves) into the cave-like space there to read books I wasn't sure I was supposed to have. I always assumed then that behind the sofa meant in that cave, peering round the side rather than over the top.
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Date: 2013-10-15 04:48 pm (UTC)Behind the sofa - I've always lived in very small houses where sofas are against the wall (actually, usually bookshelves, but this is not usual), but in larger houses they may be arranged around a coffee table, so that some are more towards middle of the room, or have a tall light behind them, or even a console table. When I was a child I used to crawl behind the sofa (it sloped backwards, so that only the top actually touched the shelves) into the cave-like space there to read books I wasn't sure I was supposed to have. I always assumed then that behind the sofa meant in that cave, peering round the side rather than over the top.