On my list of "stupid thing I've seen people do" this one has to rate up high. this is a true story from this week just passed.
I was driving home from work at about 8 a.m. (I work the first watch), the traffic was peak-hour so it was continuous and stop-start.
As I neared my home, I happened to glance across the traffic to a car that was approaching me a little too quickly. I looked at the driver and was stunned to see that the driver was involved in the delicate art of putting on mascara WHILE SHE WAS DRIVING!
The two things that bothered me about this were:
a) that she was driving with one hand on the wheel, holding her compact mirror, while delicately applying the gunk to her eyes with the other hand. God forbid a small bump in the road (like the bump one might feel driving over someone's unfortunate 5 year old.) might push the stick into her eye and cause her to panic and scream in pain.
b) that she was looking into a small mirror balanced on the steering wheel, focusing her vision directly onto that small area making her able to see the road and the traffic around her, only peripherally.
It's okay though, she looked up every few seconds to make sure no small children had run out in front of her moving vehicle. She was actually driving like that!
Please don't any of you reply that you have done this, I will be forced to block you forever.