by A L Johnson

Created on: January 12, 2008

I am sure there is a HOW-TO guide somewhere on the Internet to help other women do this dangerous act in a car, that may be moving, or perhaps stopped in traffic, or at a stop light. I never quite understood WHY? Bad enough women do this with KIDS in their cars!

Perhaps I am wrong, but wouldn't it be safer if we women, got up 20 minutes earlier, or an hour for some ( Not all women, mind you! ) put our faces on BEFORE we left the house? I can say this much, you would not want to be behind ME if I catch you applying make-up in my rear view mirrors.

One morning I was stuck in traffic on the way to work, this one woman in a small car, bumped my trucks bumper. OK, she tapped it. NO damage would have been created by the "tap" of her bumper, so I kept moving on after I pointed my finger at her, ( NO! Not the middle one! ) and I yelled out my window, "Don't touch my bumper again. Pull over and put your face on!"

I watched her behind me as she was applying her Mascara with one hand, one EYE on the road apparently and then she went on to apply her eye shadow. I could not believe that this young woman was driving like this! She dabbed her eye shadow on one eye and then the other, and moved her car behind me as we moved slowly in traffic that morning. Drive a few feet, stop. Drive a few feet, stop.

Well, I was mad after she tapped my bumper. I mean, applying make-up in the car is a ridiculous and dangerous act to do, it is bad enough I have heard of people changing clothes while driving their thousands of pounds vehicles and act like it's OK to do so behind the wheel of their cars!

I was out for revenge! Days later, on this same stretch of road here in my city, SHE, the woman applying make-up whom apparently did not heed my advice of putting it on before she left her house, was behind me yet AGAIN in her little car.

My first thought was, let her hit me from behind, it will be her fault. But then I worried about my own truck being forced and hitting the vehicle in front of me and damage it would cause, or perhaps injury, therefore, I was not going to partake in being as selfish as she was.

So, being I sat up higher in my truck, then she did in her little low to the ground car, she could not see anything in front of me, so if traffic was cleared a bit, she would not know!

She was behind me and I was ready to test this idea of mine out. I let the car in front of me get a few car lengths ahead, and with her behind me, doing the same exact thing as days before, with one eye on the

• 1
• 2
• Next Page >>