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July 14, 2006
rearview mirror
news flash: people, even if you have tinted windows, you are not invisible in your car. you are on full display to drivers around you. now, i admit i've been guilty of behaving like my car is an inviolate sanctuary of curtained privacy, only to glance over and see the passenger in an SUV staring down at me. (in that event, i recommended grinning and doing "jazz hands." they're usually embarrassed into looking away.) but i don't think i do anything that actually appalls my fellow drivers...unlike these people, that i observed in my rearview mirror today whilst driving home from work:
- a very professional-looking, well-dressed woman excavating her nose.
- a man vigourously patting his own bald head. i kid you not.
- a couple arguing passionately about something (i deliberately let them pass me; i don't need to get rear-ended again anytime soon).
- two teenage guys rockin' out, doing radio karaoke complete with air drumming.
- (this at a stoplight) a guy e-mailing on his Sidekick and then taking his own photo in his sideview mirror.
- a guy with sporting the whole 70s-aviator-cop-sunglasses-and-moustache-type look spit-grooming his hair in his rearview mirror...and then giving himself the thumbs-up! again, i kid you not.
that was just today, in about 35 minutes of surface-street driving...
Posted by hadashi at July 14, 2006 9:36 PM
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Oh, man. This is priceless.
I can't wait to see you at BlogHer!
Posted by: Jenny at July 19, 2006 10:02 PM
me too! i'll be looking for someone with really cute, COMFY shoes...
Posted by: hadashi at July 22, 2006 12:43 PM
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