APPLYING MAKEUP WHILE DRIVING

Professional Driving Techniques: The Essential Guide to Operating a Motor Vehicle with Confidence and Skill

The essential guide to operating a motor vehicle with confidence and skill.
This book walks you step by step through the intricacies of the Driving System the Driver, the Vehicle and the Driving Environment.
You'll learn how to maintain your vehicle and it s driver in optimum condition for taking to the road, and how to maintain vehicle control in both everyday and emergency situations in a variety of road and weather conditions.
The text also features:
How to recognize the five major accident situations and the human and mechanical failures that usually cause them;
The basics of vehicle dynamics and why the vehicle sometimes does what it wants to do, not what the driver wants it to;
The finer points of vehicle control in everyday driving (timing, maneuvering, spotting hazards) and in emergency situations such as when there are five seconds or less between the driver and a potentially serious situation;
How to operate the controls with precision, accuracy, and in the proper sequence.
The necessity of both mental and physical readiness and the adverse effects of fatigue and stress.
Plus, Road Rage, Braking and Traction Systems, including Electronic Stability Control, Safe Driving and Auto Maintenance Tips from Shell Oil Company

Well my trip to Wyoming didn’t go quite as expected. Good thing I had a backup plan. Left with an extra day before I had to start home I ventured into Teton National Park. After a couple short hikes I decided to use the opportunity to get some unique pictures of Heidi. I found a vacant parking area (difficult to do at this time of the year) and did the transforming. I had a difficult time trying to do the makeup in my rearview mirror. While working on it a truck parked nearby and a man got out and walked down the trail with his daughter. I had turned away until he left and then resumed applying the makeup. When they returned, I realized the wife had been sitting in the front seat the whole time.

Anyways, when I thought I might be done I stepped out and took a few pictures. Reviewing them I was very unsatisfied. I tried again and was ready to scrap the whole idea, but tried one more time to make adjustments and finally decided it was good enough to not give up the opportunity.

I then drove to the entrance sign and parked in front of it to partially obscure the view from oncoming traffic. I took a dozen pictures or so when another car pulled up. I casually walked to my car and started to drive away. Almost immediately I realized they were just checking their map and when they left I went back for more.

Later I drove to the Snake River Overlook turnout off the highway. There were a few people there taking pictures of the river and mountains so I waited until they were done and then got out and took some pictures. While I was doing that, more people pulled in and walked down to the overlook. As they did I took the more distal path back the parking area and got into my car. Once I had just set the timer and walked to my spot when a couple came around the corner directly toward me. I tried to casually pick up my camera and walk away. One of them approached me but I acted like I was preoccupied with the functions of my camera and proceeded to my car. Now I wonder if they just would have been offering to take the picture for me rather than let me use the tripod and timer. People do that all the time. I also tried taking my first action videos but didn’t realize that videos can’t be rotated so they came out sideways. Oh, well. Better luck next time. Finally it was getting dark and I still had to find a camping spot while I could still see. I drove to an area I knew, still dressed to the nines, passed by some campers standing by the road and found a nice site to de-transform.

This person was completely covered, ostensibly to protect herself from the sun. Listen lady, do you think the headgear impairs your vision...just a little? She's also reading. If she had been applying makeup, that would have been the trifecta. If you see this woman, exit the highway immediately. And yea, it could be a guy, but I doubt it.

Even after taking Driver's Ed and passing that dreaded road test, there are so many things new drivers need to learn about the practical aspects of driving that will only come from experience.
Handing over the keys is a traumatic rite of passage for parents, and they will sleep better knowing that The Driving Book is in their teens' glove compartments. Covering virtually every scenario a new driver may face, from changing a tire to negotiating privileges with parents to handling a car in bad weather, Karen Gravelle helps teen drivers navigate through tricky new territory-on the road and at home.