My kid’s just finished the classroom part of driver education and it prompted a discussion of crazy things we’ve seen other drivers do.
The craziest thing I saw, many years ago now, was I came up behind a guy driving a Ford Ranger pickup and could see through his rear window that he was doing tricep extensions with a dumbbell in his right hand. I was more surprised as I passed to see he was shaving with an electric razor in his left hand. I don’t really know how he was steering.
Kiddo said they were told personal grooming was the fourth leading cause of accidents.
I was riding down the highway and spent time looking out the window as I often do since I’m bad at keeping up in conversations. Parallel to our vehicle is this very highbrow lawyer, who I recognized because I had been to the courts before. Maybe he didn’t think he would end up driving so parallel to any vehicle, but there he was, quite visibly texting while driving. Or maybe playing Candy Crush, I don’t know. I definitely don’t snitch under those circumstances, but my friend’s kid, who was in the passenger seat behind me, hears me mutter to myself about the willingness to “if only my hand was forced”, takes my camera which I always have with me and takes a picture, and within minutes, it’s all over the airwaves. The lawyer’s standing did not exist for much longer.