Lacking a sense of ...

Here goes with a rant: Why do so many women appear to have no inborn sense of danger?

If you drive, you'll sooner or later come across a vehicle stopped on your side of the road, at night, on an unlit road, with some hapless bloke hauling out the spare wheel and jack. Chances are you won't actually see this until the very last split second, because his female passenger will be standing behind the car (observing? supervising?) and she'll be - I can almost guarantee this - standing in just the right place to obscure your view of his offside rear light.

So - do you swerve (at night on an unlit road, remember) and maybe hit another unseen gawping bystander who's in the wrong place? Do you jam on the brakes and pray you don't squash the gormless wench against the rear of her fella's car because the driver that's too close behind you slams into your unexpectedly-braking car?

Once, I too had a flat tyre on an unlit, twisting, narrow country lane. Guess what my wife did? And then accused me of "bullying" when I tried to persuade her not to stand immediately behind the offside rear light.