A working girl (tiny shorts and fishnets) sets up her chair by a dirt track; far beneath her roars the motorway; up on the track, cars pass and occasionally stop.
Typical jokes included a riff on a bee travelling alongside her on the motorway, and a shaggy dog story about the year she kept bumping into 1980s pop star Taylor Dayne.
I was getting around with a fairly attractive blonde, so it was an obvious call for her to be standing by the motorway with her thumb up in the air whilst I sat in the bushes reading a book.
It is not only her business being affected by the measures, under which dozens of lorries are forced to park or "stack" on the motorway, but her quality of life.
The speedometer on Teresa Forcades' battered silver Peugeot saloon shows 130kmh, but Spain's most famously radical nun is so busy talking she seems oblivious to the 80kmh speed limit signs above the motorway near her Sant Benet convent on the slopes of Montserrat, Catalonia's sacred mountain.
One of the women, who was arrested with her partner on a motorway on Tuesday, Ornella G., was formally placed under investigation on Saturday in connection with the car found last Sunday near Notre Dame cathedral.
Here she is, for instance, waiting for a call from a guy, surely one of the world's most documented minidramas: "The telephone was for Agnes a symbol of pure, unsolicited intention, containing none of the ambiguity of other more complex forms of encounter.... Days when she was expecting a call stretched out before her like empty motorways, banked on either side with anticipation and dread...
The footage appeared to show the Highway Patrol officer stopping a woman on a busy Los Angeles motorway, before pinning her to the ground and punching her in the face.
So she climbed the embankment and began making her way parallel to the motorway, along dirt tracks, through marshy fields, and over fences, tearing her clothes on barbed wire.
After all, if Sandra Bullock, America's sweetheart, can't keep her biker spouse on the monogamy motorway, how can anyone be sure his or her partner isn't running up a little extra mileage on the side?
