Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
designing women
i am continually amazed at what we, as human beings, will do in our cars, presuming that no one else can see us. it's like we step into our cars and it's just a natural extension of our private homes so we just assume that jane doe sitting in the lane next to us cannot see a thing we do inside our impenetrable fortress. and why would we think such a supercilious thing? do we not notice that our cars have, i don't know, glass windows?
case in point (you knew it was coming) - driving home on friday afternoon, i was stopped at a red light when i happened to look up in my rear view mirror. the car behind me was one of those fancy lexus suv's. but that's not what i noticed first. i first noticed the woman behind the wheel. she happened to be glancing in her rear view mirror as well. then i noticed she wasn't so much glancing as she was looking intently. then i noticed she had something in her hand. she put it up to her face, just under her nose and started moving it in swift, upward motions. it was a razor. she was shaving.
a woman.
was shaving.
in the privacy of her impenetrable fortress (aka, car).
now, i am not one to judge, because i've been known to pull the same sort of tricks in my car*, but i obviously started to giggle. because damn! then i started to think of charlene on designing women**. right, so, there was an episode where she talked about seeing a man picking his nose in his car and how disgusted she was and did he think she couldn't see him? and then i started looking into it and i realized it was actually suzanne who said it:
"Suzanne: ...I mean, if we're trying to outlaw unattractive habits, why don't we outlaw nose-pickin' in your car at 60 miles an hour?"
but isn't that something charlene would totally have said? i know, weird, huh? i guess when you think of it, it's something suzanne would have said too.
geez, i miss that show.
i'm sorry. what were we talking about again?
*i have a tweezer i keep for those pesky stray chin hairs that don't show up till they see daylight. shut up, you have them too.
**i loved that show, didn't you? i still watch reruns on lifetime.
case in point (you knew it was coming) - driving home on friday afternoon, i was stopped at a red light when i happened to look up in my rear view mirror. the car behind me was one of those fancy lexus suv's. but that's not what i noticed first. i first noticed the woman behind the wheel. she happened to be glancing in her rear view mirror as well. then i noticed she wasn't so much glancing as she was looking intently. then i noticed she had something in her hand. she put it up to her face, just under her nose and started moving it in swift, upward motions. it was a razor. she was shaving.
a woman.
was shaving.
in the privacy of her impenetrable fortress (aka, car).
now, i am not one to judge, because i've been known to pull the same sort of tricks in my car*, but i obviously started to giggle. because damn! then i started to think of charlene on designing women**. right, so, there was an episode where she talked about seeing a man picking his nose in his car and how disgusted she was and did he think she couldn't see him? and then i started looking into it and i realized it was actually suzanne who said it:
"Suzanne: ...I mean, if we're trying to outlaw unattractive habits, why don't we outlaw nose-pickin' in your car at 60 miles an hour?"
but isn't that something charlene would totally have said? i know, weird, huh? i guess when you think of it, it's something suzanne would have said too.
geez, i miss that show.
i'm sorry. what were we talking about again?
*i have a tweezer i keep for those pesky stray chin hairs that don't show up till they see daylight. shut up, you have them too.
**i loved that show, didn't you? i still watch reruns on lifetime.
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