I just wonder if anyone else suffers from peer pressure when driving... Do you put your foot down just a little more when the arrogant looking businessman going through a mid life crisis with the little Mazda MX-5 begins to speed up a little?

Or maybe that is just me suffering from road related peer pressure.

What about headlights? I've noticed I'm a little bit 'headlight happy' at times, and often drive during the day with my headlights on. Not out of any deep seeded notion of transit safety, but mostly so people get out of the freaking road.

But here is the one that I really suffer from. Windscreen wiper peer pressure. If I am out on the road alone, with no cars around and it starts raining my windscreen wipers go on faster than Pete Doherty's Cat gets high on crack... But if people are in cars around me, and they seem to be driving just fine without using their wipers, then for some strange reason I turn my wipers off again, even if I have trouble seeing.

It is not like I don't care about safety, but for some reason if the other drivers are going in the rain with their wipers on intermittently or not at all, then I just can't justify having mine on full speed. In my head (which is a strange place) they are all looking at me and my car thinking "What a stooge... supernerd cautious freak who can't drive without wipers! - I bet he wears beige tweed".

And we all know that there is nothing worse than wearing beige tweed...