Is it really worth the risk?

I think I have seen it all in my 32 years on this Earth.

While driving to work one morning during this week, I saw something which left me speechless. Standing at the red traffic light, I noticed the woman driver behind me busy doing her make-up. Looking right, I then noticed another woman, travelling in the opposite direction, also doing her make-up.

I immediately asked myself why? Why are these women so busy in the mornings that they cannot do their make-up at home before work? I simply do not understand it.

I wear make-up and do it at home before work. It doesn’t even take me 15 minutes to do. And sometimes when my mornings do not go as planned, I take my make-up with me and finish quickly at work. I will not sit in morning traffic and put my life, and those of other motorists in danger.

I think applying make-up while negotiating a turn should be considered just as bad as driving and texting at the same time.

Let’s be honest ladies, your attention is not on the road … it’s focusing on not messing up your perfect cat-eye eyeliner.

Don’t get me wrong, my morning routine is pretty easy compared to other women because of a lot of factors, one being because I do not have children.

But still, is it really worth it?

I watch you driving behind me and swerving while trying to finish your look, and then finally coming to a stop so close to my back bumper that it scares me. Who is going to come off second from this, I believe, deadly exercise?

Either way, you will be left with a terrible eyeliner pencil line across your face, or you will look pretty in your morgue photo. You decide.

Until next week, drive safely Krugersdorp.