A Personal Grooming Tip: Always Buckle Up and Drive Safe

Jim Caballero of L.A. was driving on 26th Street in Santa Monica when he glanced to his right and noticed a young motorist who “appeared to have some kind of stainless steel appliance attached to her face.”

He looked away but confessed that “at the next red light, my curiosity overwhelmed me. I looked more carefully, expecting to pity her because of some horrible disfigurement, her face being held together with steel screws and braces.”

He was in for a surprise.

“What I saw,” he said, “was that she was curling her eyelashes while driving.”

Alan Brown of Manhattan Beach spoke of seeing another driver using the same type of contraption, “possibly invented by the Marquis de Sade.”

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TALK ABOUT CUTTING THROUGH TRAFFIC: My request for strange motorist sights also prompted Robin Frasier to write:

“I was driving south on the 405 at about 30 mph in moderately heavy traffic when I noticed that the man in the car ahead of me was cutting his hair. When he finished that, he began to work on his beard and mustache. He was using the rear-view mirror to check his progress.”

Added Frasier: “I changed lanes.”

(Tomorrow in this series: The man with no windshield.)

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DANGEROUS DINING: Eirik Haenschke of North Hills noticed a cut of beef in which the letter “T” had been unfortunately substituted for an “H” in the last word on the label (see accompanying).

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