pritch
6th February 2010, 16:14
There is a little piece of roadcraft advice that warns, "Beware of drivers wearing hats."
When you think about who wears hats when driving that actually isn't as silly as it might at first appear:
hoons with their baseball caps on back to front driving with their glands instead of their brains, geriatrics of both genders driving from memory (and the memory ain't what it was...),
bowlers driving pissed or otherwise.
So today I was heading for home along SH3 when I quite suddenly came upon a Holden momentarily stuck behind a furniture van. One is cautious passing vanilla flavoured Holdens but the driver of this one was wearing a floppy hat as if going fishing, or possibly even living out a little Chris Vermeulen fantasy?
That looked OK so I passed, looking down as I did so to see what the driver was wearing.
As you do.
I didn't like his light blue shirt very much at all, it clashed terribly with his red Holden:whistle: so I proceeded with a degree of caution. As we approached the next speed restriction sign my radar detector registered a strong hit. Nothing in sight except the Holden. I hope he was impressed by the law abiding manner of my riding...
It would seem though that there might be another category of hat wearing driver to be wary of?
When you think about who wears hats when driving that actually isn't as silly as it might at first appear:
hoons with their baseball caps on back to front driving with their glands instead of their brains, geriatrics of both genders driving from memory (and the memory ain't what it was...),
bowlers driving pissed or otherwise.
So today I was heading for home along SH3 when I quite suddenly came upon a Holden momentarily stuck behind a furniture van. One is cautious passing vanilla flavoured Holdens but the driver of this one was wearing a floppy hat as if going fishing, or possibly even living out a little Chris Vermeulen fantasy?
That looked OK so I passed, looking down as I did so to see what the driver was wearing.
As you do.
I didn't like his light blue shirt very much at all, it clashed terribly with his red Holden:whistle: so I proceeded with a degree of caution. As we approached the next speed restriction sign my radar detector registered a strong hit. Nothing in sight except the Holden. I hope he was impressed by the law abiding manner of my riding...
It would seem though that there might be another category of hat wearing driver to be wary of?