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Or what not to do on the motorway.

I was heading back into London on the traffic-ridden M4 yesterday, in my dad’s Focus, when a pantomime-esque scene unfolded.

I couldn’t help but notice a guy jump out of a black mk 5 Golf next to us and run across the left verge to answer a call of nature.

After this, he started walking towards a different Golf, in front of the one he got out of moments before.

Despite frantic use of the horn, his friend behind him was unsuccessful in getting his attention.

The guy had clambered into the passenger side of a stranger’s car and started to put the seatbelt on!

After some arm flailing actions from the startled driver moments later, ‘toilet-break man’ quickly realised the error of his ways.

He slowly stumbled back to his friend’s Golf, face as red as a tomato, with our section of the motorway pointing and laughing at him. I would have felt sympathy for him if it wasn’t so damn funny.

Funnily enough, our chief-editor Mr Adrian Higgins had a similar situation occur not long ago.

After a day of golf (no pun intended to the previous example), he unlocked his Toyota Auris and opened the boot, only to find a different set of golf clubs staring back at him.

Soon realising it wasn’t his own Auris, but in fact an identical one just parked next to his recently-unlocked vehicle, he closed the boot before apologising to the female driver. She was sitting scared in the front seat while all this happened.

It took her around ten seconds to actually wind the window down and talk however - she  probably thought our boss was some kind of crazed car thief. Bless her.

So the moral of this story? People will think you’re weird if you get into their car.