BTW, the main problem with using the mirrors it just that you have a rather large blind spot. Or at least, that’s what I was taught in driver’s ed.
Since I haven’t driven recently, my only experience is as the passenger. The most annoying thing I do is probably putting down both visors and forgetting to pull the side one up when someone is turning. It’s odd, but I find that not being able to see anything but the road makes me less carsick and/or headache prone.
almost apropos of nothing but once, when on a holiday in Australia, driving through the outback I pointed out of the window and exclaimed “ostriches!”
My wife immediately looked out of the window and* up into the sky * and said “where?” in a confused tone.
Her excuse for this when I gently (mercilessly) teased (bullied) her later (and for the rest of the holiday) was that
a) she was driving and so concentrating on the road
b) because of a) she thought I said “ospreys”
c) this explained the look into the heavens and confused tone
I refuse to believe this.
I’m not married, but I do regularly drive with my housemate as passenger. She does not drive, and her family rarely went any distance in the car either, hence she has no concept whatever of not distracting the driver unnecessarily. Among her more ‘endearing’ habits is a theatrical ear splitting screech that she claims is a yawn, which is somewhat startling when performed without warning, less than two feet from your ear while you’re driving.
Possibly her best one though was when we were going to a festival; I’d been driving about 5 hours and we’d hit rush hour on a big, completely unfamiliar roundabout, several lanes, high speed, heaving with traffic and I wasn’t sure which was the right turning. She chose this time to suddenly reach across my body and try and yank me round by the shoulder, yelling ‘Look!’
She’d seen a pretty horse. :smack:
Ps. What were ostriches doing in the outback?
I laughed myself into a coughing fit.
mmm
Ostrich farm, I suspect.
(Hijack: A friend was driving when his wife, in the passenger seat, saw a bunch of deer in a field, which was enclosed by a maybe 5-foot-high fence. She exclaimed about the “deer farm” and he almost laughed them off the road before explaining to her about how a fence that short won’t keep deer in, and they were almost certainly looking for food.)
We were in an area that has/had a feral population and I saw big walky-birdy things on the horizon.
To be fair, they could have been emus but in any case they were unlikely to be aloft.
Maybe they were llamas.
Little known fact. WKRP has a sister station down under.
Sorry billfish, you are going to have to explain that one to me.
I kinda quoted the wrong part so I messed up the funny. Ostriches can’t fly, so one would not expect to see them in the sky. The TV comedy series WKRP in Cincinatti had an episode of domestic turkeys being thrown from a helicopter above a local mall, “hitting the pavement like bags of wet cement”. Perhaps one of the funniest TV moments in history.
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
Now I have this overwhelming desire to see this entire episode filmed again, substituting ostriches for turkeys.
A four minute clip of flying turkeys from youtube.
Oh, the humanity.
Aaaaaahhhh, I see. I recall the show vaguely but not the episode.