Stoplights and Sanity

 I don't mind sitting at stoplights, at least not on a cold but sunny day when I can bask in the warm rays of sun coming through my windshield.  Of course it needs to be during February, at lunchtime when the sun is more overhead and not blinding me in the eyes like it does on my morning commute to work. Ah, the only thing that could make this better was if the light was long enough to get out my knitting needles and get in a stitch or two while waiting.  Now I know this would be a dangerous alternative to getting impatient with the light, or yelling at other stupid drivers. Those needles are not exactly car friendly, unless you are a passenger.  When I have thought about pulling out  my little number 5 dpns and stitching I look up and see someone coming down the hill behind me, not yet braking and think, well I don't need a needle impaled into my chest along with a steering wheel.  The things I have to give up....

     But you have to admit, knitting while you drive may be a good solution to shaking a fist, yelling and getting your blood pressure up.  If I didn't know better, I would blame other people knitting while they are driving on their poor driving performances, but I know better. Knitting can only make you a better person, a more patient and gentle person... and that definitely is not what I face in traffic. 

     In the old days, the very, very old days, you could knit while you drove, a horse that is...sitting with the reins between your knees and the horse plodding down a road it already knew, you could pull out your knitting and enjoy the breeze through your hair. You had plenty of time to see stops or turns ahead to pull up the reins or gee or ha the horse, at least I think you gee and ha a horse as well as a mule?  No matter, you had time to drop the knitting in your lap and direct the horsepower in front of you.

Yes, knitting while riding in a wagon would be so relaxing. Maybe part of the driver's test should be having the nerve to knit and drive at the same time. That would at least make you put down your phone, or course it does take your eyes off the road like a phone does, so maybe on second thought, it's not such a good idea. Unless you can knit blindfolded, but I think that is how a lot of people are driving already.