Most days on the train I read a book but sometimes on the way home I just want to shut my brain off for a little while. A new hobby I have come up with is peering out the window on the blue line and observe the things people do when they are driving that do not encourage safe driving. I figure about 40 percent of the people I viewed were doing things they shouldn't be doing. Here is a short list of the things I have seen:
- Cell phone use (most common and illegal activity)
- Talking on phone while gesturing wildly with other hand (Who's got the wheel? No one.)
- Reading (material usually pressed to steering wheel)
- Nose picking
- Smoking with arm hanging out window
- Talking to person in back seat
- Trying to get something from back seat
- Putting on make up
- Trimming toe nails (foot on steering wheel)
- Brushing teeth
- Drinking beer in plain view (someone with a cell phone call a cop please)
- Passenger giving driver a "noogie"
- Smoking a joint
- Taking shirt off
- Cleaning the car (Armour All-ing the car)
- Checking their blood sugar
- Making out
