# Scene in the rear view mirror

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scene-in-the-rear-view-mirror/334373>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 6, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scene-in-the-rear-view-mirror/334373 "2005-12-06T16:38:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scene-in-the-rear-view-mirror/334373/1 "2005-12-06T16:38:20Z")

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Setting: I’m driving in today on the Westpark Tollway, which was a bad implementation of a good idea. Good idea: high speed traffic flow from the west side of Houston into the Galleria area. Bad implementation: bottleneck the damn thing down to one lane where it goes under the Southwest Freeway.

So I’m stopped in the backup from the bottleneck. I’m not a morning person anyway and my mood has not improved by having to pay a toll to sit dead still on a freeway. I look in the rearview mirror at the car stopped behind me.

I see a very pretty woman, obviously singing along with whatever’s coming out of her speakers and having a great time doing it. She’s not beating time on the dashboard or bouncing all over the seat, she’s just singing. And smiling. What a smile that young lady has. Most folks smile with their mouths. Hers went all the way up into her eyes.

As we inched our way forward, I kept glancing in the mirror and she kept singing. And smiling. This continued until we got past the bottleneck. She continued down Westpark as I exited on Post Oak, and she was still singing. And smiling.

And I was smiling as I took the exit.