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Old 01-19-2006, 12:16 PM
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Did you read this in Diesel Car Magazine while driving !


Originally Posted by IrishEyes' post='226625
What's the worst that you've seen?
Tell me about it. Driving to the office this morning on the M50, I looked over to my right
and there was a woman in a brand new BMW doing 90mph with her face up next
to her rear view mirror putting on her eyeliner! I looked away for a
couple seconds and when I looked back she was halfway over in my lane, still
working on that makeup!

It scared me (I'm a man) so badly, I dropped my electric shaver, which
knocked the cereal bowl out of my other hand. In all the confusion of trying
to straighten out the car using my knees against the steering wheel, my mobile
phone fell away from my ear - this then fell into the coffee between my legs,
splashed and burned Big Dave and the Twins, ruined the damn phone and DISCONNECTED
AN IMPORTANT CALL!

BEWARE OF WOMEN DRIVERS!!!
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Old 01-19-2006, 12:21 PM
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I did one time see a woman with a curling iron doing her hair! Don't know if she had a an adapter for her cigarette lighter or if it was battery powered!
Old 01-19-2006, 12:25 PM
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I saw a woman painting her finger nails once - and watched as she ran into the rear of a car stopped ahead of her. It was in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the Alpharetta Autobahn, so she was only going about 3 mph. But I can only imagine what happened to the bottle of polish!

BTW, Cattman - too bad our Autobahn is under construction and speed limits dropped to 55. Now it is a crawl every morning, even at 6:30 a.m.! :thumbsdown:
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receiving a BJ ? lol
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Originally Posted by wiszmaster' post='226637' date='Jan 19 2006, 03:29 PM
receiving a BJ ? lol
I'll have to take the fifth on that one wizmaster!
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Driving through the local college when classes let out.... you'll get whiplash from craning your neck to check out the hotties.

One time I was sitting at a redlight and got rear-ended by a pizza dude who was checking out the girls instead of looking at the road.
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Originally Posted by cattman' post='226551' date='Jan 19 2006, 01:33 PM
I drive the Alpharetta Autobahn (GA 400) 2 hours/ day, and at this point, I think I've seen it all.
I see so many women doing their makeup while driving it makes me sick. And people reading- newspapers, novels, porn, it's amazing.

What's the worst that you've seen?
Reading, makeup, and cell phone. For me, it is fooling with 545i electronics trying to figure out how to do something.
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In order of frequency encountered:

#1 Cell phone use in large, lumbering and wandering SUV's in the left lane
#2 Make-up application using both hands while vehicle in motion
#3 Kids in the back seat behaving like animals
Old 01-19-2006, 01:19 PM
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Oh I forgot a classic, also witnessed on the Alpharetta Autobahn: a woman breastfeeding a baby while driving.
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Me: normal:cellphone, i drive, cd-s and that'sa bout all.
un-normal: seriously making out, inisiting girlfriend that wanted my attention badly since i was driving through a narrow road in the woods. Almost lost control for a coupe of times...i could hear the branches sweeping my car and then i backed off...till i stopped )))))))). The rest is private.


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