I carry tweezers in my car. Not for auto-electrical emergencies or anything like that – my tweezers are for stray hairs. And combatting boredom in the car.
My attention span is not very long and I get bored at traffic lights, waiting in queues or sitting outside the school waiting for my son to finish saying goodbye to every single person he’s ever seen before he gets into the car to come home.
I carry tweezers because I find those boring moments can be easily filled by looking carefully at the rear view mirror and plucking any stray hairs on my face – or indeed any gray hairs on my head. I have lots.
I never tweeze when I’m driving though. No, when I am driving I eat or I answer back to the radio. I’ve tried to just drive, I really have but I get so bored! I pay full attention to the road and I resist the allure of my phone (unless there is a really long traffic light or you, know a traffic jam that does not move) but I am not very good at just sitting with myself I guess.
Last week in Sydney police launched Operation Freeflow which targets people who spend time in their car doing things other than driving, like shaving, applying makeup, eating breakfast and I guess, tweezing.
Apparently these activities have caused more than 14,000 accidents over the past three years on Sydney’s busiest highways. Although they DID NOT mention tweezing in their report….
So you think tweezing is bad, or even shaving, but last week Richard Glover opened up the lines on his afternoon show on 702 to ask people what they had witnessed other drivers doing in their cars. The people who called in reported amongst other things
– Someone playing the guitar whilst driving. Window open guitar in the breeze and fingers on the strings. Knees come in handy when driving whilst strumming. Apparently