Now you may be asking yourself "wtf is a traffic mirror?" (Btw as I'm writing this my friend is crying/laughing over the term 'traffic mirror)
Ok, so the official name for 'traffic mirror' is apparently 'rearview mirror"..... HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW?!?! I'll tell you the tale on how I came along the term 'traffic mirror'.
It's just a normal day, and I'm video chatting my friend Emily. We're talking about weird stuff like our plans, cults, adverbs, and gossiping about facial fuzz. While doing this though, I'm writing a chapter of my story "Battling Scars". (If you haven't started reading it ya should check it out 😉)
When suddenly, I came upon a predicament. I asked my friend for some help. I started discribing the mirror like this.
"Ya know that mirror that hangs off of a car ceiling?" Now it took quite for her to understand what mirror I was talking about.
"What mirror....? You mean the flappy-flappy thing that keeps the sun out of your eyes?"
"NO! Not the sunvisor! The mirror that hangs off the ceiling!!"
"I DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT!!!!!"
"The mirror that's round and the driver adjust to to see behind them!"
"OH!!! THE ROUND MIRROR THINGY!!!!"
"YA! What's the name for that thing?"
"Uhhhhhhhh....."
"Traffic mirror?"
"Uhhhh. I don't think so..." She replied. So I read my sentence out loud with 'traffic mirror' in place.
"I looked at him through the traffic mirror hanging from the truck ceiling." Emily burst out laughing. SCARYING the bageezuz outta me.
"WTF! ITS DEFINITELY NOT TRAFFIC MIRROR!!! THAT SOUNDS SO AWKWARD!" she says while laughing so hard she started crying. This catches her sisters attention.
"Shelby (me if ya didn't know). What's wrong with Emily?" With this I commanded Emily to take out her headphone so I could explain to her sister why she was laughing so hard. I explained and all the sister had to say is,
"Well she's kinda crying..." With that I burst out laughing. It takes a little bit for me and Emily to calm down. After we calmed a little bit down.... Then I dicided to do some internet searching to find the term I was looking for....
When I searched traffic mirror this came up.
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Uhhhh. That IS NOT what I was looking for. After a little while of searching and laughing with Emily I went to my dad's room. He knows quite a bit about cars, so I thought he would know the answer.
I definitely must not have done a good job describing the mirror, which led to him having no idea what I was talking about. So I THOUGHT he didn't know the name either.
By now I was laughing so hard I was crying. (Emily was still laying and repeating "traffic mirror" over and over) I went back to googling.
FINALLY! I had googled "mirror that hangs from car ceiling" and guess what poped up!
Rearview Mirror.
I'm sorry what? Ummmm.... That kinda sounds familiar. I tell Emily this new news and she just starts laughing harder! I didn't even think that was possible.
I roll my eyes and now she will never let it go that's I once used the word.... "Traffic mirror" in place of "rearview mirror"
