today, a woman stopped her car in the middle of the road, and i watched as she rummaged in the glove box, produced a book of some kind - presumably directions - then produced a magnifying glass which she held right up to her eye, with the book not far behind.
this raises several questions - if she can't see, how come she's driving;  if she can see, wouldn't she know she was in the middle of a busy main road on a saturday morning;  or was she so lost she thought she was in the middle of a field.

we'll never know.

moments later she roared off with her nose pressed to the windscreen and i'm wondering if she was last seen bumping along the sea bed in the english channel, then stopping to wind the window down to ask for directions ...