car tested, windy approved

today i learned that my short haircut is perfect for driving on the highway with music blasting and all four windows down.

i also learned that when i have random papers on the floor of the back of my car, they will fly out all four of my down windows while i rock out to my music and enjoy not having to worry about having a hair tie stashed in the car.

oops.

seriously though, i haven't been able to do the windows-down hair test since i got it cut back in october. it was either too cold or too rainy or too full of mischa or too some other extenuating circumstance, so today was the first time i had all of my windows all the way down since the big chop.

it passed the test with flying colors, by the way. my hair would go in my face today, but there were no longer such crazy amounts of it that it rendered me unable to see the cars in front of me or in my peripherals. i can actually drive safely with my hair down, instead of realizing shortly after hitting the cruise control button at 65 mph that my massive amounts of hair are going to continue to whip me in the eyes and mouth, causing me to start the blind-one-hand search for the elusive hair tie that got to be too annoying to stay on my wrist. nope, instead i got to enjoy worry free summer time cruising.

just as i was getting used to my awesome new freedom from crazy wind-whipped hair, however, i noticed something white dancing around in my rearview. it flipped and turned and crinkled, and then it was gone. i watched it shrink as it sped away from me in the side view mirror. and before i had a chance to react, another one decided to follow suit. after the third piece of paper took off with reckless abandon from the floor behind my seat, i decided i had to put an end to my wonderfully breezy ride and roll up the back windows to avoid a large littering fine.

i cranked the music louder to compensate.

it was a good drive home.