What Is It About...Driving and Nosepicking

Maybe this will be my schtick, semi-regular postings about whatever it is that bugs me. "What is it about..." Those will be my rants I guess, I don't know. I just know that this idea has been bugging me for the last few days as I contemplated creating this blog in the first place. So, for my inaugural post entitled "What is it about...?" I'm going to talk about driving and the picking of noses. I've got about 4 hours worth of driving when I go to work roundtrip, (don't ask) and I see this all the time. From Pinto's to Benzo's, everyone seems to do it (not me, though, I'm far too upscale and sophisticated to do stuff like that) the poor, the rich, the middle class, everyone with a nose seems to be in full dig-mode when piloting an automobile. So, what is it about drillin' and driving that seem to go hand in hand with one another like teens at the local theme park (they still do that don't they? I mean hold hands and go to theme parks? Most of the kids I see now at the mall have their iPod firmly in place within their ears and they only stick close enough together for me to imagine that they're somehow a couple and not related or bonded by step-parents, but that's another subject for another time), is it because there's nothing better to do? You can perform one act with one hand while simultaneously pulling off the other act with the opposite hand. Is that it? I mean, I don't know the answers, I don't know that there's studies on driving while under the influence of boogers (<==That's a funny word) as I can't imagine there's many people who would confess to the highway patrol that the reason they swerved into oncoming traffic was because they had a fingernail full of green "gold".

Hell, what do I know? Maybe there are studies and I missed them. Anyone work for an auto insurance company out there? Do you have numbers? I'm going to go ahead and say that 13% of accidents are caused by a particularly mean and sticky snot that just wouldn't leave the finger, which, thereby caused the driver to reach across the seat for a tissue of napkin leftover from their last visit to Wendy's (mmm, Wendy's), but it was just so far out of reach that it made them pull on the steering wheel and wreck into some unsuspecting and hopefully, non-nosepicking driver.

By the way keep an eye out for this: When driving and sitting at a stop look around and find that one person who's got their arm out the window and rubbing their index finger and their thumb together trying to get that dried booger off. Just look for it, you're bound to see it and now you're all the wiser for knowing. And, you're welcome.