I know some people (*cough*TreyGarrison*cough*) will cry “nanny state!” when discussion turns to the push to restrict cell phone usage while at the wheel, at the state and federal level. NOT ME. If I had a nickel for every time someone repeatedly swerves into my lane and, when I catch up to that person, I notice they have a phone pressed to their ear or, more often, their head pointing down toward the blue glow of a text message, I would have approximately 4,090,518,641 nickels. I think you would agree that is a ton of nickels. It’s like the entirety of Coit Road is an AT&T commercial. Also, they’re paying so little attention to the road, they fail to see even one of my extended middle fingers, let alone both.
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Look, dude, some of us are closing deals.
Actually, a ton would be 181,437 nickels.
YOU LIE!
Actually, that’s probably right. Just part of my continuing attempt to devalue the ton.
Never let it be forgot that: ‘It’s a free country’ means navigating several tons of moving machinery at high speeds while staring at our hand-held electronic devices is a god given right.
Meanwhile: ‘Don’t tread on me’ is my cry to that women in the Lincoln Hoginator who swerved into my lane on Stemmons at 70 mph while playing her iPhone, narrowly missing three cars (one of which hopped the curb damaging a wheel) oblivious as she multitasked en route to the exit.
bluetooth headset. under $20
Seems like a no-brainer, but I wonder about enforcement. The “No hand held device use in a school zone” signs did nothing to stop the jack-ass I saw in the Black Escalade tapping away while cruising past Stonewall Jackson on Mockingbird at about 8:10 this morning.
Golly. And here I thought we already had traffic laws against illegal lane changing without a proper signal and laws against reckless driving. I guess it’ll be OK with everybody if I swerve and am distracted by looking at the healthy booger I just picked out of my nose while driving.
My entire car is a Bluetooth headset. But people stop and watch me talk to myself, so that probably has caused a couple of near-accidents, too.
Cell phones don’t cause accidents. Crappy drivers cause accidents. Since you can’t seem to come up with a way to get crappy drivers off the road, I guess you can just blame it on cell phones…
I agree entirely with JB. Why is it OK to put on make-up or change cd’s or scratch yourself (or someone else) while driving? The laws should punish incompetant driving and not dictate what actions might cause incompetance. Some people can multi-task and others can’t. Why should we all suffer?
Maybe all school zones should have a sign posted that says “don’t be an idiot”.