Young Girls Applying Make-up While driving
Sat, 10/03/2009 - 16:01
A specialist women's motor insurance company reports that nearly 500,000 crashes occur each year due to women applying make up while driving.
Most of these females are in the age group 17-21, only just had time to pass their test and they've already picked up this stupid habit.
Ban them from driving straight away to deter them?
What is your opinion?
Ban them? How very draconian!
Funny there have been no statistics released about accidents caused by men fiddling too much with their privates whilst driving...!
Applying a bit of lippy while driving is no more dangerous than finding a station on the radio or trying to light a cigarette. Because of the age-old (and rather puerile) debate about how women are allegedly worse drivers than men, statistics like these get more press.
Perhaps a small reminder is required here!!
The mirror was installed in a car for viewing traffic to the rear, for putting on the lippy men have to pay a fortune for vanity units in the home, why not use these?
"for putting on the lippy men have to pay a fortune for vanity units in the home"
Of course, us 'little women' can't afford to buy such luxuries as vanity units because we can only afford our lipsticks. Or perhaps you don't drive a car, more of a Flintstone's pedal vehicle, seeing as your attitudes are from the stone age!
I'm sorry but that comment made me see red, and only further highlights the not-so-latent sexism that exists about women drivers.
I know what the mirrors in the car are for, thank you terrynova, and I only very occasionally use them to touch up my make up, usually when I'm stuck in a traffic jam. Yes, there are women who are irresponsible enough to fiddle with their make up when they shouldn't be, but to ban them? Too harsh. Way too harsh. A caution? Maybe. A point off the license? Perhaps.
Bring on the ball fiddling / accident stats, that's what I say! :)