Red Bull to the Rescue!

I had the dubious pleasure of being stuck in a traffic jam for 1.5 hours yesterday. Right next to Schipol airport in Amsterdam, in the soaring heat of a Dutch spring day.

The traffic was stationery for most of that time and of course there was no reason for it. Reminiscent of an REM video, people were out of their cars walking around and chatting to each other, with the smokers having a quick gasp on their way to the hospital and beyond. (As if the car fumes and aeroplane exhaust vapours on either side of the carriageway were not enough)

In the midst of this melee was this little mini and in this little mini were two little misses who came to the rescue of the nearby 'trapped' drivers, by distributing cool cans of Red Bull. It was a most thoughtful and pleasant thing to do, even if you ignore the possible commercial advantage it may provide and the sudden surge in confined hyperactivity that followed. I would prefer to think that this gesture was done on more humanitarian grounds but then I am a soft touch for free drink and young misses.

I took some pictures of these girls distributing aid to the drivers but the pics were taken through the bug spattered windscreen, so I will not share them with you. Instead I will leave you with this picture off the Red Bull website of someone who looks remarkably like one of the girls, even if she is doing a lot of damage to a small car.