Road Rage

What is it with people and their fury on the road?

Calm down people, take a deep breath, it is not the end of the world.

Gee-whiz I didn’t see the damn kombi. I was at a quirky roundabout (more like a T-junction with a roundabout) where you either take a slight bend and go straight ahead or turn left. Or if you feel like a swim, you could turn right and go over the guardrails and take a plunge to the river below.

It was between 4.30 -5pm and the sun was glaring right in my eyes. I stopped at the roundabout, squinted, stretched my neck up to avoid the glare and checked if it was safe to proceed. I thought the oncoming VW kombi was going straight ahead. I swear I did not see the indicator.

I started to proceed but screeched to a halt as the kombi, with a man (driver) and a woman (passenger) was manoeuvring the roundabout to turn to their right. When I halted they tooted the horn, gave me the middle finger while mouthing the F word (I am sure they didn’t just mouth, they must have screamed their lungs with that favourite word of the deranged). Thankfully with my windows up I only saw the mouthing of it and irate faces glaring at me.

So much anger and hatred for such a simple mistake!

It may be illegal to swear in public, at work, yep even by the boss and police can arrest if you use the F word on them, yet the word just fall off the mouth of drivers as if the tongue is a slippery slope.

At that moment, my thought was “what is the big deal?” “I stopped, didn’t I?” I could have understood (sort of) if it was at least a near collision, or at least my oversight made them veer. It was neither.

I have no explanation for my reaction next, except to say something about their incensed faces screaming blue murder, tickled my funny bone and I burst out laughing with my arm outstretched in a gesture that says ‘look at those faces’.

With my (strange) reaction, the irate looks vanished in a flash, replaced by surprised, quizzical looks while slowly moving out of my sight.

It was a film worthy moment within many moments. It truly was.

I kept looking at the back of the moving van while still laughing and saw the woman passenger peering from the side mirror with the bewildered look still about her.

Perhaps they thought I escaped from the loony house, I don’t know and don’t care.

I found a new way to counter road rage.

Laughter!

It gives an air of total disorientation to the hotheads.

Lotions and Potions!

I was reading an article the other day about myths and fallacies of facial creams. At one point, the writer questioned the need for a special eye cream when the face cream/moisturiser could do the job.

I already knew this fact and it got me thinking about many unnecessary creams in the market.

I never saw the need to buy a separate cream for the eye area and saw it as a ploy by creators, to milk us women dry by assailing our vanity. Our vanity has made clever marketers become unreasonably exploitative. I know the modern man too has become rather vain.  It is evident with abundance of products out there for the male species and the line seem to be expanding at a rapid speed. BTW, this has made some men look more polished and smooth skinned than women. J

I think I digressed a bit there. I am not talking about men’s beauty products.

I am questioning the need for a special eye cream on the market (and creams for specific areas on the face & for specific purposes) and why women allow themselves to be fooled day in and day out. Me (not to the full extent) included!

I have never bought an eye cream but I have come to own eye creams with periodical deals with my regular beauty potions. Eg; buy all three (moisturiser, night cream and eye cream) and get for less than half price. So I go, umm… I don’t really want the eye cream but I can do with the other two and the price of the deal (most of the time) is cheaper than buying the two products (I want) separately. I get the eye cream free. No harm there.

These deals happen closer to Mother’s Day, Christmas, and maybe Valentine’s Day.

Even though I did not want or need the eye cream, I come home and happily slap it around the eyes, thinking, “Oh what the heck, it was free.”

Eye creams have done squat around my eyes. I have never seen any visible benefits. Still I use it until I see the bottom of the jar.

What can I say? It was free! J Then there’s the cleansing cream and make-up remover. Wouldn’t the first do the same as the other? Do we really need to buy a separate make-up remover?  What about mascara/eye make-up remover? Why buy this when you can use your face cream or good old fashioned Sorbolene cream or even baby oil to remove mascara?Which are fraction of the price of above creams. I am not sure about using the cleansing cream here as it could be too harsh around the eye. 

Yep, as women we have been had!

There is one thing I can vouch for though.  Retin-A! 

Face cream with Retin-A as a main ingredient does wonders to the skin.

No kidding!