Hi, Bill, Don't you hate it though when they are right along side and you can see the pack in the purse on the passenger seat or the flicks of ashes in the open ashtray, but you can't see the face. For me it's torture. I'm not a leg man so those don't do much for me. I once followed a woman, probably 25-30, for about 30 miles. I had seen she had a cigarette and was good looking as she went by, but never thought I'd catch up. She got stuck behind a farm tractor and I got right behind her. The sun was just coming up and we were running east, so her smoke was backlit nicely. After taking about 5 second drags, I could see she wasn't blowing smoke out the cracked window, instead exhaling either straight in front of her or toward the passenger side of the car. Speeds weren't fast so I could stay about 150 feet behind and not have to worry about rear-ending her, at least not in the traffic sense. She was drinking a large mug of coffee and even danced in her seat to the same morning zoo station I was listening to. It was funny. After watching her smoke almost 5 cigarettes in the nearly 45 minutes I got to follow her, we got to a traffic light and I moved into the right lane to make my turn, something I wouldn't have been able to do with a bigger tractor or longer trailer. Thank god for day cabs and 20' containers. As I pulled up alongside, I looked down to see a child seat in the passenger seat with a small child drinking a bottle and looking up at me. Sitting in her open purse between the seats, just in view over the child seat, were three packs of Newport 100's. She had her right hand resting on an obviously pregnant belly while the other hung over the steering wheel occasionally flicking ashes out the now fully opened window. I did something I've only done a couple times. While waiting for the light to change, I grabbed my own pack of Newports, and as she looked at me I held them up where she could see, and gave her a thumbs up sign. She looked at me funny for a second and then smiled and laughed as the light changed giving me a thumbs up also. My absolute best siting ever. Just one of the benefits of truck driving. And no, I was still able to turn the steering wheel with out getting it stuck on anything--
