… i beg to differ. i’m sorry, i’m going to whinge. i heard this news report yesterday and it nearly made me choke on my breakfast. according to recent reports, white van drivers are amongst the safest drivers on the road. now, the point i’d like to make is that they’re basing that on the number of white vans that are involved in accidents, rather than causing them.

now i know that this is a bit of a sweeping statement, but from my experience, white vans tend to drive you off the road and carry on driving, so they’re not going to be involved in that statistic are they? and let’s be fair, if they evaluated the accidents that white vans are involved with most of them would be caused by the leering men behind the steering wheel not concentrating on the road. at what point does shouting “get your lalas out for the lads” out of the window with an expectant look on your face ever work? someone really should educate them that there are far better ways of attracting women!

to make things even worse, they reported that black and silver cars are the most likely to be involved in an accident… which in my case is fair, so i can take that, but surely it’s because they’re popular cars (popular, not common!) so statistics are bound to be higher for them. that’s what i tell myself anyway.

having had my first white van driving experience a couple of weeks ago when i moved home - i have worn the shoe on the other foot and i admit - i was an awful driver. i felt i had to prove myself to all of the other white van men as they seemed amazed a girl could drive a van. however, this also meant that i too cut up a car, but it was more to do with me not having good spacial awareness, so we’ll gloss over that.

i wonder if i got out of the wrong side of bed today? maybe i should go back to bed, just incase
m x

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