Honestly, I swear this really happened. This gal gal almost killed us all by farding.

I was out for a ride on a country road with no shoulder, and as I was approaching a blind curve that goes to the right and over a small rolling hill (little hump in the road), the gal in her Buick comes up behind me, and she was very curteous about moving over and giving me room. But, she didn't seem to be thinking very much, because she was crossing over a double yellow as we entered this curve.
Lo and behold, an F-350 dually comes 'round the bend, and literally ended up halfway in the ditch to prevent a head-on collision with her, while slamming on the horn.

The gal driving acted almost oblivious to what was going on. I of course, didn't want to get killed in the middle of this head-on collision, so I slammed the brakes to let her by quicker, and put myself in the ditch, luckily not crashing.

As she went past me, I gave a quick glance to see what the heck she was doing. Sure enough she had her sun visor down, and was farding while driving. She wasn't even paying attention to me or the truck. Holy COW!! That is complete insanity. She couldv'e killed us all. I guess the Vonage commercial is true. People really do some stupid things.

How many of you Gals actually do this while driving? And I thought using a cell phone was unsafe.

farding?

What is farding? I assume it's something to do with the little mirror in the sun-visor, putting on makeup maybe?

When I first saw the title for theis thread I thought you were talking about farting

me too

I did a Yahoo Search on "Farding" and got a response "Did you mean Farting?"

Anyways--According to Merrium Webster - FARD

Main Entry: fard
Pronunciation: 'färd
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French farder, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German faro colored -- more at PERCH
1 : to paint (the face) with cosmetics
2 archaic : to gloss over
- fard noun, archaic

From Epinions.com

Number 2: Farding - No, not flatulence. Farding is a technical word used for that thing that the ladies (some guys too) spend two hours doing before they leave the house. In other words, putting on make up and fixing their hair. For the life of me I can’t figure out why that after two hours in the bathroom at home, they would need to pick and powder on the way to work. Please ladies, you look fabulous, gimme a break and save it for when your not in control of the minivan.

Wow Patriot, you just dated yourself with the term fard!

Dating yourself can be fun.

Especially if you do a little farding before you take yourself out.

Hip, you kill me.

Seriously though, that lady (no offense to the better half), was a complete DINGBAT!!! Who in their right mind would do that anyway?

I like it Hipcycler...good one

...farding?

as I have recently found out, it means to put on makeup/do hair/whatever while driving.

I think it's stupid. The ladies look great already, no need to kill yourself putting on makeup while driving!

not sure what farding is, but I have seen men perform this type of maneuver many times.

how old ya got to be to get these pills you're speaking of anyway

If the barn needs painting...paint it.

Reading the title, I thought a female biker ahead of you farted and almost caused you to crash.

Until I read further and got a definition, I was suspecting that you were talking about "self-abuse". You know: the kind that makes you go blind. I was not about to tell you about anything I might have ever done in my car akin to that.....but I once had this friend.......

so is it... "farting around" or "farding around"

I give up.

You learn something new every day....48 years old and I never knew what farding was until now

Haha, that is exactly what i was thinking.

I decided to stop when I needed glasses. What is laser vision correction? Do they do it to your eyes?... sorry for the large print

My, my, I'm 49 and a "girl" and all this time, didn't know when I was farding!
I swear, first thought I had when reading your headline was a flashback to last week when somebody farted in spin class next to me and I thought I would die.
Then, I thought, dear gawd, he was drafting behind some woman who farted in his face...

Farding while driving is not uncommon. Worse than that, I saw a woman eating a bowl of cereal (with both hands) while driving down the interstate this morning. That blows my mind.

In French, the word fard means make-up or blush, so the use of the word farding in English seems to make some sense in that situation. As they say, f you drink don't drive, same thing if you fard...