Furtive Writing
I'm the Queen of Post-Its, but also of napkin-writing and hand-writing and up-my-arm writing; whatever is available, really, and whenever -and wherever- I can. This includes while I'm driving. Yes, that's my dirty little secret (and now yours, too). I grab paper from my purse, from a tiny notebook which has been used by my children, whose squiggles I must write around, or yank a napkin from the passenger side glove compartment --the reach itself is pretty treacherous, but what I do next may make the weaker-hearted of you not wish to read on.While handling the driver's wheel with my knees, I pinion the paper to the horn with one hand, hold a pen cap in my teeth, and jot down notes, dividing my "eye time" equally between paper and that yellow line. All while hurtling down the road in a thousand pounds of metal.
And yes, I've accidentally honked the horn during particular moments of eureka euphoria.
2 comments:
If you were to hold the pen itself in your teeth, instead of just the cap, you could still keep both hands on the wheel.
I can just see you! Wild-eyed, swerving down the road. . . .seems to put writing into the "extreme sport" category. :o)
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