Texting while driving? Are you guilty of that! Oh, I got to tell you, most of the people in this town are not capable of driving when they focus full attention on the road! The sure are not able to carry on a conversation with someone in the car let alone on the phone and drive with any responsibility. So now lets give them a teeny tiny typewriter and turn them loose on the public. I am very happy to see that finally the National News is picking this up and running with it. Why is eveyone so far behind me and I am not that bright?
Now under no conditions do I think the American public that is doing the yapping and texting while driving are responsible for this! No! I blame Obama! Well, not really, but the poor guy gets it for everything else, so just wanted to throw that out as an option.
I do blame Technology. We can put a man on the moon. We can put a computer in a device that is 3 inches by 5 inches and an eighth of an inch thick and capable of flashing a missive around the world in 2 seconds, but we can not stop an idiot from using it while driving down the road and 75 miles an hour. That is almost faster than the speed of light! It has been stated that it takes 10 to 20 seconds of having your eyes focused on the screen to send a short message. And then read the return. Lot can happen in just a few seconds. Hell, I have conceived in less time then that!
In my usual haphazard way of watching the news I did see that a national something or other has a campaign going showing the last message on the cell phone before hitting a brick wall. Real important stuff like YEAH, lol, yes, no. And that could not have waited? I am with them on the ban of these devices while driving. I am also in favor of enforcing that law. I would go further and say I am in favor of us drivers who do not do this being able to enforce it also. If I see someone texting while driving, I should be able to pull out my gun and shoot them. Or ram them and knock them off the road. Oh, do I sound a bit radical? Well, I hate that, but I also hate coming on a twisted mess of metal that was once a car and seeing the body bag being carried off to the ambulance. See the sad part about this whole selfish mess is it is not always the guy with his finger on the phone that is in the bag. Sometimes it is the little old lady setting at the stop sign thinking about church on Sunday. Or the silly boy who thought just cause he was in the cross walk that he was protected.
I have got to get a sticker for my car that says. HANG UP AND DRIVE. I doubt that will work though. I been giving them the one fingered Hawaiian good luck sign and they don't see that. So for today, this is just my humble opinion. Don't text and drive and don't talk and drive should be as simple to remember as don't drink and drive.
Laters!
Now under no conditions do I think the American public that is doing the yapping and texting while driving are responsible for this! No! I blame Obama! Well, not really, but the poor guy gets it for everything else, so just wanted to throw that out as an option.
I do blame Technology. We can put a man on the moon. We can put a computer in a device that is 3 inches by 5 inches and an eighth of an inch thick and capable of flashing a missive around the world in 2 seconds, but we can not stop an idiot from using it while driving down the road and 75 miles an hour. That is almost faster than the speed of light! It has been stated that it takes 10 to 20 seconds of having your eyes focused on the screen to send a short message. And then read the return. Lot can happen in just a few seconds. Hell, I have conceived in less time then that!
In my usual haphazard way of watching the news I did see that a national something or other has a campaign going showing the last message on the cell phone before hitting a brick wall. Real important stuff like YEAH, lol, yes, no. And that could not have waited? I am with them on the ban of these devices while driving. I am also in favor of enforcing that law. I would go further and say I am in favor of us drivers who do not do this being able to enforce it also. If I see someone texting while driving, I should be able to pull out my gun and shoot them. Or ram them and knock them off the road. Oh, do I sound a bit radical? Well, I hate that, but I also hate coming on a twisted mess of metal that was once a car and seeing the body bag being carried off to the ambulance. See the sad part about this whole selfish mess is it is not always the guy with his finger on the phone that is in the bag. Sometimes it is the little old lady setting at the stop sign thinking about church on Sunday. Or the silly boy who thought just cause he was in the cross walk that he was protected.
I have got to get a sticker for my car that says. HANG UP AND DRIVE. I doubt that will work though. I been giving them the one fingered Hawaiian good luck sign and they don't see that. So for today, this is just my humble opinion. Don't text and drive and don't talk and drive should be as simple to remember as don't drink and drive.
Laters!
