Thursday, June 08, 2006

Bare Minimum

I was stopped at a stop sign this morning to make a left onto another street.
There was a car in front of me. A gold Mercedes-Benz, 4 door, also trying to make a left.

At first I didn't pay attention to the funny shape in the driver's seat as I was too busy looking at the cross traffic.
The street we were looking to turn left on is a busy road (Golf), so we had to sit there a while before a break in traffic happned. It was this kind of 'sitting' time that bored my mind and allowed me to observe the shape of the driver's head in front of me.

Was it a woman? A man? What were those things sticking out of what looked like the driver's head? Hmmm....

When the car in front of me finally found a break in traffic and turned onto Golf, I finally saw what I was looking at.
The driver was a woman. And the funny shapes that made up the shape of her head were rollers. I couldn't believe it! From what I could tell, she was wearing a nice work blouse, make-up applied nicely too, but then what was with the rollers? Where and how was she going to take the rollers out and style her hair?!?! DId she have a salon in her Mercedes?

If I realized I was not going to have enough time to roll and style my hair before leaving the house, I would not begin to roll my hair at all.

I've seen women in their car putting on make-up via their rear view mirror on the highway and such and always kind of shook my head at them. It's dangerous, not only for other drivers, but for themselves as well (imagine poking your eye out with a mascara wand). I've heard of people going out to the mall or the grocery store in their pajamas on a regular basis and have shook my had at that too. If you're not going to make the effort to put on shirts and pants, then don't go out. It's a minimum requirement people....even McDonald's requires you have clothes AND shoes on to be served.