She stayed in her lane — by creating her own.
The hilarious moment a naughty senior citizen in England rearranged road cones in a botched attempt to bypass traffic was recently captured on video.
A video of her game of cones is currently blowing up on Facebook, with viewers joking that she was in a hurry to get to “bingo.”
“I couldn’t believe she was actually doing it,” Anthony Foulkes, who filmed and uploaded the incident, told South West News Service. “She had ants in her pants.”
Foulkes, who called the unidentified woman “very, very naughty” in his video voiceover, had witnessed the brazen act while waiting for workers to clear an accident near Colchester, Essex, in a stretch already hindered by construction.
The uproarious clip shows a row of cars sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic next to a lane that’s bookended by two sets of cones.
On the other side of the dividers is a lane with a lot less congestion.
All of a sudden, a gray-haired senior departs her car and starts moving the markers about like lawn ornaments in an apparent bid to access the fast lane.
In narration, Foulkes can be heard quipping that she is “too posh to wait.”
After creating a car-sized gap, she returns to her vehicle and attempts to drive through the newly created opening.
Just as she’s about to turn onto the desired stretch of expressway, a road worker intervenes and forces her to reverse her car back into her original lane.
The apparently exasperated employee then returns the cones to their original positions.
Foulkes was none too impressed with the commuter’s brazen attempt at circumventing congestion.
“A lady of her age should know better; if it was a 20-year-old lad, then I’d understand it,” he scoffed. “She couldn’t even lift the cones.”
Not only that, but the videographer believes that her cone configuration was “all wrong.”
“She should have staggered the cones so the gaps were on an angle so she didn’t have to make such a sharp left and then a sharp right,” he explained to SWNS. “She messed it up.”
He added that the driver was lucky the “hero” roadworker stopped her or else she might’ve been blindsided by an oncoming truck after entering the fast lane.
Viewers were quick to poke fun at the lady’s backfired travel hack.
“Stay in your lane ma’am,” joked one quipster, while another wrote, “Oh my goodness. The cheek of some people.”
“She’s gotta meet Doris in the pub for a big bingo night,” said a third.