If I live to be a hundred, I’ll never understand the female mind.
I was driving to a pupil the other day and I was behind a dark red Renault Clio. Nothing odd about that. But the inside was a comedy of errors…
- pink seat covers
- pink furry dice – huge ones
- a pair of stuffed pink & white bootees on the back parcel shelf
- a pink ball on the end of the aerial
- a pink & white giraffe and a white teddy bear glued to the passenger side dashboard
- a large, nodding white poodle glued very slightly to the left of the speedo area of the dash
- various other toys stuck to windows and in corners
From behind I couldn’t see the driver above the head restraint of rear of the seat, so she wasn’t a tall person. So there was no way she could possibly see properly with that poodle on the dash and those dice hanging from the mirror. And she wasn’t a slow driver, either – she shot off pretty quickly from lights and stuff.
Makes you wonder how she’d deal with a kid walking across as the lights change, hidden right behind that stupid stuffed poodle.
Mind you, I was on a lesson yesterday and a car (a BMW, I think) pulled up alongside us at lights. I said to my pupil:
Just look at this guy on his mobile next to us.
Apart from the fact he was on his mobile whilst driving, the mobile had what appeared to be a huge metal chain attached to it (or possibly it was an ornamental belt buckle – it was about 10cm across and looked like it was diamond-encrusted). Also attached was some sort of stuffed toy at least 20cm long.