Today on my way to work I spotted a nude male motorist. At least I assume he was nude, as he certainly wasn't wearing anything on top, and he seemed a bit anxious. He was in his late 30's by the look of him. A perfectly ordinary looking chap - except for the lack of clothes that is.
I'd got held up in a traffic queue at some roadworks. He was in front of me, driving a red hatchback. His driving seemed erratic, getting very close to the kerb. My colleague who was sitting next to me suggested he was about to make a U-turn to get out of the queue.
He suddenly did a U-turn, and as he turned past us, I noticed he was very flustered and anxious and he definitely wasn't wearing anything that we could see apart from a pair of glasses. I imagine he didn't want to be caught in the queue in-case people spotted he was naked. Or maybe he'd just realised he'd forgotten to put on any clothes that morning...
Then on the motorway I spotted a matrix sign warning of 'Fug'. A good start to a very surreal day!
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Was n't a Fiat Bravo was it? Hope he kept his Boxsters on? etc etc etc
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One passage in Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' has two men and a woman sitting in a row in the front seat of someone else's Cadillac driving across America at a steady 110mph stark naked, to give the truck drivers a quick flash and a good laugh.
Perhaps the bespectacled commuter had been abandoned by his companions and felt a bit shy on his own?
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It's not wearing shoes that puts me off trying it. On those occasions on very hot days when I have been tempted to kick my shoes off I usually regret it - even rubber pedals get so hard on the feet with constant pressure.
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he could of been legging it after getting caught playing away from home by some crazed knife weilding husband , hence the lack of suitable attire !
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he could of been legging it after getting caught playing away from home by somecrazed knife weilding husband hence the lack of suitable attire !
I know someone this happened to! IKYN.
Also I'm offering a virtual pint to the first person who can name the 60's/ 70's French film which involves nude or topless driving down the autoroute in a Citroen DS enroute to the holiday cottage/ farm.
Edited to add: did I not hear somewhere that driving barefoot is not allowed?
Edited by Billy Whizz on 11/02/2008 at 16:07
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I've been stopped by the polis (I was out after curfew) while driving barefoot - they didn't mention that it wasn't allowed.
When I worked on the petrol pumps, one couple turned up in a Triumph Herald - and didn't get out. They were both stark naked. Actually, I guess they could have been wearing shoes - I didn't check that much :-)
It was the lunch hour and I was on the forecourt by myself and nobody believed my story
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Can't remember the name but Gerard Depardieux was one of the stars.
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The film ends with them driving down a mountain road and realizing they're driving the car they sabotaged the brakes on at the beginning of the film-nothing to stop you driving in bare feet or socks in the EU-I often do-only illegal in a few US states.
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It's not wearing shoes that puts me off trying it
I agree CP, hard on the feet unless they've been bare a lot of your life, and on harsh terrain too.
The late Francoise Sagan, who became rich and famous at an early age after writing a novel called 'Bonjour Tristesse' - never managed to get through it myself, but a lot of people must have thought it was all right - bought herself an Aston Martin DB2/4 which she enjoyed driving barefoot (but retaining the rest of her kit). She claimed it put her in touch with the machine.
I seem to remember she rolled it once too. A sign of keen or carp driving or both, hard to tell which if one wasn't there.
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For some strange reason I am reminded of a recent newspaper headline which said that a headless body had been found in a topless bar.
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Mario Andretti once said"If you've never had an accident,you're not driving fast enough!!".
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It sounds like a forfeit of some kind. Bit late in the year for Students' Rag Week; maybe some kind of role-play game?
I remember some Rag Week stunt when I was a fresher, where a student had to drive round the boulevards (Nottingham's urban ring road) stark naked. As I recall, it was quite a warm summer evening and the car in question (Escort Pop Plus) had cheap and nasty vinyl seats. Yeouchhh.
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Perhaps he'd had a clothes call...:-)
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