bloody woman driver
I forgot to mention this over the weekend.
I was on the A3 on Saturday early afternoon, travelling out of London at a reasonable speed. I came over the bridge at Shannon Corner and all of a sudden the fast-flowing traffic ground to a halt. Bum. There was a long old queue ahead (a great view of it snaking down into the underpass from up high on the bridge) and it appeared that three lanes of traffic were being forced over into one. It later became clear that this was thanks to a month’s rain falling in about an hour on Friday, causing dips on the A3 (of which there are many thanks to the abundance of underpasses on the London stretch of the road) to turn into ponds. So, two lanes were out of action. Well, these things happen and Mr Motorist seemed to be coping well enough so I figured the sitting and rolling an inch, sitting and rolling an inch wouldn’t really last too long.
The car behind mine was a hotted up silver Golf TDi, driven by a woman of about 26 or 27. She had a sharp, pristine bob, and oversized sunglasses on her head. You know the type. Ought to date a division one footballer (not that I know what division one means but it isn’t premierleague or whatever and that is what I am getting at). While we were stationary, I watched her in my rearview mirror. She got out her make up bag and set about putting on a full coat of warpaint: cream foundation, powder, blusher, lip liner etc etc. Ok, this was fine, I guess. We were barely moving and when we were, she could probably concentrate enough to not hurt anyone.
But I was staggered to watch her manoeuvre her car across two lanes of traffic, pass the flooded area and then pick up to over 80mph (I was doing 80mph and she overtook me) all the while STILL doing her make up. She was putting her mascara on as her car overtook mine (I was in my wanky silver 1.1)!! Can you believe it?! And I trailed her all the way to Guildford (well, I was going that way!) and the entire way she played with her hair, redid her lips and eyed herself up in the mirror.
Travelling at 80-90mph.
I mean!
So if you know the driver of WV55 OSC, tell her what a stupid bimbo she is and ask her to wrap her car around a tree sooner rather than later and to avoid killing other people in the process.
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A work colleague I used to live with done her make up on while in the car. Its much more terrifying watching this happen from the passenger seat then from the car in front.
I once rear ended a guy while plucking my eyebrows
*blush*
I don’t drive anymore
ps – if there is anything that could be read salaciously in my comment, I meant it the clean way
TheBoy – I was going to reply about my precious bumper but Peach practically made my point for me
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Peach – well, of course. I imagine it would be hard to rear end in any other sense of the term with both hands occupied, one holding eyebrow taut and the other wielding tweezers…
I remember once hurtling down the M6 on my phone (in my hand) and drinking coffee whilst steering with my knees. I don’t do it so much nowadays.
Rich – so much? Try “not at all”
How carefully are we defining ‘not at all’, loosely or strictly?