The strange thing in the excavator I was driving my daughter to kindergarten this morning. It was that kind of semi-dark where your headlights are already mostly useless but you still don't see very well yet. There was some fog, too. I see a small excavator (digger) machine on the roadsite doing its thing. OK. But wait. Normally, a human sits in the cab, guiding the machine. But I cannot see the outlines of a human, which I initially blamed on the poor lighting. But wait. There is a strange... mass filling out the cab. What the hell could this be? As my car is getting closer, the full horror was revealed to me. An ex-man, weighing at least 180 kg (400lbs) if not more, is filling out the cab glass to glass.  It was a small excavator but even on those, the cab is rather generously designed: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/A_small_excavator_%28Bobcat_322%29_ubt.jpg so imagine that - glass to glass, wall to wall. OK his gigantic winter coat was also adding a few centimeters. The ass and thighs are flowing, hanging down the human sized seat.  He was talking on a phone while working the machine's shovel like 1 meter away from the car traffic, which sounds irresponsible for me and probably against regulation. The exertion of simultenaously talking and controlling that machine with those terribly difficult joysticks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTOzrkC-21M had him running out of breath and constantly gasping in the phone, entertaining whomever he was taling with.  My daugther was unusually silent. Kind of speechless. She is 3.5 I think pretty soon I will have some explaining to do about the larger bipedal species inhabiting our cities.