**applying make-up,**
During my almost 20 yrs of OTR driving, the cell phone has seemed to be the top killer. At least women don’t apply makeup the entire time they are in the car. But those moments can be ridiculous in their efforts to paint their faces.
Once I was stopped in a left turn lane at a 4 way traffic light intersection. The traffic coming from my right had a left turn lane, and I watched as a young woman in that lane turned to go in the direction I just came from. I thought, “What is she doing?”
As she went by my drivers side window I realized she was applying either mascara or eye liner,... while turning through an intersection.
There was one trip on the thruway in NY where I saw people in two separate driving down the thruway with open books propped up on the steering wheel. I was shocked because I remember wondering that if I saw those two in our usual 3 hour trip, just how common was this?
Did I ever wish for an air horn on our minivan!
I would have blasted it when I was right next to them, just at the point where they could have caught me out of the corner of the eye while I was passing them.
I would love to have scared the crap out of them in the (probably vain) hopes of teaching them a lesson.