This is what I got...
Wall to wall cars, and I even left a little early. Everyone else left a lot early I guess.
I was sort of prepared. I had just downloaded a bunch of new podcasts the night before, so I had something to listen to. That was lucky, I guess.
But I was in no way prepared for the guy in the SUV that I was stuck next to for close to ten minutes. He was apparently concerned with something in his nose. Very concerned. So concerned that he spent the better part of that ten minutes with one finger or the other buried deep his nostril. It was kind of hilarious.
How do you not look at that guy? I tried, I really did. I moved as far forward as I could, or hung back when possible, but there was no getting away.
While highly gross, it did make a few minutes of my slow crawl home kinda funny.
Maybe that's not weird. Maybe its just a bodily function and I should just get over it. Nah.
I see people doing crazy things in traffic all the time. This isn't my first nose-picker. I saw a woman turn at a light and as she came toward me, I saw her with a digit in her nose pretty firmly. I looked in my rearview as she passed and saw the man in the truck behind me had noticed her too and was laughing.
I've seen women putting on makeup as they drive, not just at stoplights. I've seen people reading novels, texting with both hands and eating a variety of foods that normally would require more than one hand and a little more concentration.
What makes me nuts are the drivers who are texting while their passenger sits and stares out the window. Why not hand the phone to the person who isn't controlling a speeding vehicle screaming down the highway? Seems a little safer, no?
I know I'm not alone, you've seen these people too, right? What's the strangest thing you've seen someone doing in a moving vehicle?
7 comments:
Something I'd like to do one day, in a traffic jam or at lights, is pretend to take my eyeballs out and put them back the wrong way.
I also have an admission...I'm a nose picker.
Usually it involves work, food or makeup, with their items spread out on the dashboard like a desk as they whiz down the interstate at 75 mph. But talk to a trucker sometime. Those guys see some pretty amazing and disgusting things on the road.
NYC - Reading the newspaper. That's not too big a deal except he was driving at 50 M.P.H.
People changing clothes while driving. Usually sweats to work clothes.
I can't mention some of the things that I've seen while driving. It would warp your sweet mind. But I drive an enormous beast and I can see for miles around. Nobody is safe from my eagle eye.
-Mercedes
My husband eats a bowl of cereal on his way to work. His knee drives the car!? He's been told never to do this with our children in the car. Nose pickers need to get tinted windows-the rest of the world does not need to see this habit. Sorry Martin.
OMG!!!
Matt, I love it!
My husband and I talk about this all the time - how some people must think that car windows aren't see-through.
The worst was one time I saw someone I KNEW picking her nose, and I KNOW that she saw me looking at her, even if I tried to glance away really quickly.
It's the only thing I can think of whenever we see each other elsewhere.
Thanks for posting this. I laughed out loud and read it to my husband.
:) Heidi
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