When I drive on a sunny day, I roll down my window and suck in that fresh air.
Actually, my air-conditioner is pretty crappy, so I can either sweat it out or have that nice fresh air I was talking about in the first sentence.
I get a pretty good driving tan most years. People drive on the left side of the road here in Japan, so it’s my right arm that gets really brown.
I think of my driving tan as a cheap status symbol.
“Yes, I’ve been driving a lot recently; thank you for noticing. Why yes, the sun was out while I was driving.”
Most Japanese people drive with their windows rolled up tight and the air-con blasting. If they do have a window rolled down, it’s usually because they are at a drive-thru window picking up burgers. A lot of women wear long gloves to protect themselves from driving tan, or any other type of tanning. At least I think that is why they wear those long gloves; I could be wrong. Maybe they are all going to fancy garden parties where they eat cucumber sandwiches with no crusts and drink barely alcoholic drinks from long glasses.
Some people have a farmer’s tan; a lot of farmers have it for some reason. It looks ok, until the shirt comes off and then it just looks sad. Unless it is on a shirtless woman, then it looks pretty good.
I like the driving tan look better than the farmer tan look.
But that’s just me.
I’m a driver, not a farmer. And I have the tan to prove it!
note: I guess a lot of farmers have driving tans, but you just can’t see them. Poor farmers.
planetross
4 responses so far ↓
curlywurlygurly // May 8, 2008 at 11:49 am
sounds like to need to visit the states for a while and work on your LEFT SIDE tan while driving. you don’t want to be lopsided in your tanning efforts.
paperdreamer // May 8, 2008 at 5:00 pm
I thought I was the only one who thought about this stupid thing! It used to make me feel OCD when one side of my body is tanner than the other! So then one hand is golden and the other one is still comparatively yellow like jaundice.
jimsmuse // May 9, 2008 at 1:12 am
I love ya, dude — but I still don’t get the tan thing. Perhaps it is because sunlight robs me of my superpowers…
Turkish Prawn // May 9, 2008 at 1:21 pm
The BEST TAN EVER was worn by a friend of mine who, incidentally is a farmer. He sported the many layer tan.
First, he had the farmer tan (brown arms and neck/head)
Next, he wore thread bare, white t-shirts all the time. The UV got through to some extent, so his torso was a light brown.
Last, he always wore suspenders (Farmer thing, I guess). What this did was block the UV completely and thus, gave him two vertical strips up the front and an big “X” on his back.
Hilarious when we went swimming.
Turkish Prawn
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