You are *not* alone

Some people think they are in a private space when they are in their car. These people do not realize that their car comes surrounded with six glass windows that other drivers and road users can look through. These people need to come to the realization fast.

Whether I'm behind the wheels or sitting comfortably in the passenger seat, I like to take a look at the other drivers on the road. Yes, I am one of those people who will peer at you from the safety of my car/cab.

Especially if you drive like a coyote on steroids, I want to see your face because I'd like to see what a coyote on steroids look like. If you cut into my lane dangerously, with a devil-may-care attitude about safe distance neither signalling your intentions nor acknowledging that you know you are a moron for doing so, I want to see what you look like. And if you drive a really fanciful car, I really want to see what you look like.

Anyway, back to people who are deluded about being in a private space of their moving vehicle. I have seen nose pickers, ladies who groom themselves while driving (what feat!), animated hand gestures that resemble boxing moves and yawners who give it AAALLLL they've got.

But the one that must take the cake is a male driver who was in front of me. We were at a red light. He opened his door, stuck his head out, and coughed his lungs out while spitting whatever came out from what looked like a nasty cough, right onto the road. The thought of my tyres running over that icky thing he just spat out, made me feel nauseous.

I must have made a really, really bad face as I yelled "GRRROOOSSS!" and watched him do all that in real time. Because, the other lady in the car next to mine? The one that I overtook because she was driving too slowly? She was looking at me.