A reader sent me this link to a story which beggars belief. I suppose the fact that it’s a lovey-dovey, brains-turned-to-mush mummies website has a lot to do with it.
Emma French, 20, from Bathgate in Scotland, had her driving test booked. She’s been waiting for it “since August”. The article spouts:
…[she] had four contractions whilst taking her test…
She kept mum about her contractions to both the examiner and her instructor as she got behind the wheel – despite her partner… brother… mum… all urging her to cancel and go to hospital.
After she passed, the first thing she did was was drive to her grandparents to tell them, and only then went to hospital. She thinks it will be a great story to tell her child when she’s older.
The article concludes:
Brave lady!
I can only assume that that’s some sort of dialect for “stupid cow” or “unfit mother”, because absolutely the last thing she is is brave.
She endangered the life of her unborn child. She endangered her own life. And she endangered the life of her driving examiner. It’s quite likely she also endangered the life of her instructor if labour started during her pre-test lesson, and you can only guess at what a danger she would have been to everyone else on the road had she lost control!
And it would have taken legions of feminists and other politically-correct idiots to persuade the insurance company that her insurance was valid in the event of any accident, because getting behind the wheel in that state is sheer stupidity.
You often see these PC clowns arguing that pregnancy is “not an illness”. Let me just clarify a few things:
- in the later stages of pregnancy some women’s brains turn to mush and they simply cannot drive safely
- sometimes they physically cannot get behind the wheel in such a way as to be able to control the car
- some of them refuse to do the emergency stop on lessons
Those are absolute facts. I’ve taught such people (and those first two are THEIR words, not mine). When it gets like that, pregnancy is much worse than an illness, and it needs all the legal muscle of the equal rights activists to prevent common sense having any say in the matter.
I wonder if this “heroic woman” would do it again when she has her inevitable 2nd and 3rd children? I wonder if she’d do it with her other kids in the car then the time comes? We’ve already established that she probably would, since she has an arrogant (or is it just a clueless?) disregard for anyone else. Another version of the story makes it absolutely clear that she was in labour even before she met her instructor that morning, and that the baby was a month early. Absolutely selfish.
Talk about starting as you mean to carry on.