Tuesday 27 July 2010

Night time driving

It has always been apparent to me how driving techniques change as the daylight reduces. The other night I had to drive at night to London Standsted airport to pick up my wife from a flight from Malaysia. It is a journey of around 150 miles and normally it can take around 2hours 30 minutes and has no major complications. I tried to sleep a little in advance of the journey but was not able to do so and so consequently I set off feeling unusually tired, generally the tiredness wears off as I drive however as the temperature was moderate and there was little breeze in the air the lethargy didn't wear off so by the time I reached the outskirts of Cambridge around 4am I was beginning to look like a characted out of Victor Hugo's novel -- The hunchback of Notre Dame, namely Quasimodo. If anyone had seen me, I'm sure I would have been a dead ringer for Lon Chaney's version of this character in the 1923 version of this famous story, piercing eyes and bad makeup would have suited my appearance at that time but surprisingly as daybreak began to take effect my metamorphosis was virtually instantaneous. The lethargy that had beset me disappeared and I suddenly became a more stimulated and rationale figure looking less like the aforesaid Chaney so viewers it shows that with the advent of light the body remarkably seems to ressurect itself back to its former self, and on this occasion, I, at least looked human when I met my wife from the airport, rather  than the miserable wretch that was Quasimodo in that famous novel by that well known French author Hugo. " Comme bien dans l'amour et le guerre " aptly said I think !!!