letter of the month
I read Diamond Dave’s column (issue 283) about the brightness of headlights and having to wear glasses to cope with the unpleasant glare.
Welcome to the Night Drivers’ Club! You enter as a Bronze Member and begin by noticing oncoming headlights like you never used to (the bulbs must have got brighter).
After a few big birthdays you move up to Silver Member (sometimes, if you’re lucky, with hair to match) and you begin commenting to your co-driver about oncoming traffic.
You become a Gold Member when you have the beginning of cataracts and those oncoming lights start to
