Random reminder

Press, 12 February 1982, Page 14

Random reminder

PHROUGH A GLASS DARKLY

Parents’. Have your toddlers ever been frightened by oafish revvings or air-horn “melodies” from old cars parked outside chip shops? Motorists! Do you wish there were some way of addressing comments to people who drive into parking spaces you were about to back into, who smile and then vanish?

Pedestrians! Some buffoon in $20,000 worth of petrol-guzzler has straddled the zebra crossing. Is there any method, short of poking holes in the tin with your umbrella, of getting the Road Code into their thick skull?

A woman from Kaiapoi has the answer. Lipstick. A message or a single word goes on to glass in seconds. It is clear, highly visible, and weatherproof. It causes no damage. It is easily removed — but not all THAT easily. “Scarlet sinners windows should be READ”

Cyclists! At traffic lights, where the grey-faced malignants ignore you behind their tinted glass and stereophonia, should there not be a way to show them that God is watching their witless incompetence? Housewives and house-husbands! When were you last able to drive straight home from a supermarket without a starry-eyed delivery girl blocking you behind her 10-tonne refrigerated truck, that her love might have a lolly-ice?

(Inserted as a public service by the Concerned Parents, Motorists, Cyclists, Housewives, House-husbands, Pedestrians, and Lipstick Sellers Association).