{"id":247,"date":"2008-09-18T10:38:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T08:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=247"},"modified":"2008-09-18T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T08:38:10","slug":"the-female-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"The Female Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I live to be a hundred, I&#8217;ll never understand the female mind.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>pink seat covers<\/li>\n<li>pink furry dice &#8211; huge ones<\/li>\n<li>a pair of stuffed pink &amp; white bootees on the back parcel shelf<\/li>\n<li>a pink ball on the end of the aerial<\/li>\n<li>a pink &amp; white giraffe and a white teddy bear glued to the passenger side dashboard<\/li>\n<li><em>a large, nodding white poodle glued very slightly to the left of the speedo area of the dash<\/em><\/li>\n<li>various other toys stuck to windows and in corners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From behind I couldn&#8217;t see the driver above the head restraint of rear of the seat, so she wasn&#8217;t a tall person. So there was no way she could possibly see properly with that poodle on the dash\u00a0and those dice hanging from the mirror. And she wasn&#8217;t a slow driver, either &#8211; she shot off pretty quickly from lights and stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Makes you wonder how she&#8217;d deal with a kid walking across as the lights change, hidden\u00a0right behind that stupid stuffed poodle.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, I was on a lesson yesterday and a car (a BMW, I think)\u00a0pulled up alongside us at lights. I said to my pupil:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Just look at this guy on his mobile next to us. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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 &#8211; it was about 10cm across and looked like it was diamond-encrusted). Also attached was some sort of stuffed toy at least 20cm long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I live to be a hundred, I&#8217;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&#8230; pink seat covers pink furry dice &#8211; huge ones a pair of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latestposts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}