I’ve seen a lot of things while driving down the highway. Atlanta is a car-centric city. No one walks. If you want to go next door to borrow a cup of sugar, you drive. But today I saw something I’ve never seen before.
As I was getting on the highway, I glanced in my rearview mirror. What I saw was amazing and terrifying all at the same time. I saw a woman pour cereal into a bowl, add milk, and then proceed to eat her bowl of cereal while she drove down the interstate.
Now I can do a lot of things while driving. I can Blackberry 50 words-per-minute, I can talk on my cell phone while scrolling through songs on my iPod, I can even do all that while buckling my son’s seat-belt for him. But I don’t think I could pull off eating a bowl of cereal. That seems nuts even for me.
So kudos to the young woman who managed to eat her Honeycombs while driving down I-85. She is uniquely talented and I think a bit touched in the head. Of course since I spent a good five minutes watching her in the rearview mirror, maybe I’m the one who should have been paying attention to the road. But let’s not nit-pick.
