May 2002

I was driving down to the railway station to pick up Anna from there.
I have this tendency to observe people from my car when I'm driving downtown some city (I love watching people). And then there I was, driving downtown and I ran into a red light where I had to turn left. I put the blinker on and slowed down and before I completely braked I looked in my rear view mirror to see if there wasn't anyone speeding up into the back of my car (those things happen in Holland frequently). I saw a little Smart (that's a car *g*) closing in, but it wasn't driving fast enough to be a threat to my car :o)
Anyway... At first I didn't pay much attention to it, but when I looked in the mirror again I was like WHAT the heck??
Ok, this might not be funny in any other given situation, but at that moment it looked so completely stupid that I burst out laughing in the car and I couldn't help it.
There was a guy in the car and he probably had some good music on because he was playbacking or singing along with the music. Usually that's nothing special. I do it myself, too, when I'm in the car, but I always try to do it a bit discretely, because I know it looks really weird if you see someone moving his/her mouth like s/he would be talking to someone when there's no one around.
But this guy was faaaar from discrete. He was so exaggeratingly moving his lips and opening his mouth — AND almost headbanging with it — that he looked like a complete moron in the car.
From the way he was doing, he probably didn't notice at all that he looked so funny, because when the traffic light turned green and I pulled up (I was still laughing), he was still singing and headbanging. He followed me all the way to the railway station (that was about 5 minutes later). I pulled up to the parking lot at the station and I glanced aside when he passed me and continued his way and I could just see him make a final headbang probably when the song ended.

People are strange...